I honestly don't think there is a way to fill the bugger without leaking on
the outside.  The best results I have had is by using an RV/marine hose
(usually white with a blue stripe - lined with food grade plastic) with the
end cut off.  I insert the cut off end into the filler neck, and just crack
the hose bib open a bit.  Takes a long time, but it will fill with very
little overflow.  The other alternative is to just kinda hold it there and
let 20% of the water run done the outside of the van.  This method is a lot
faster, but a bit messier.  :-)

Brent Christensen
'89 Syncro Westy "Klaus"

----- Original Message -----
From: j fritz <jfritz@DECORAH.K12.IA.US>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:49 PM
Subject: Westy Water Tank Fill

Volks,

OK, first an admission:  Don't do the dumb stunt I did....trying to get
bleach into the tank through the filler tube on the outside (wanted to kill
anything living in there....its our first fill-up with the the water tank).
Anyway, overflowed the bleach, it ran down the side and left brown streaks
on the paint job :-(  I'm hoping rubbing compound will take it out.

Now for some questions:  I hooked up a hose to the city water fill adapter.
Only about 40 lbs. of city pressure but the faucet couldn't hold it.  Is
there a washer kit for this thing to get it so it will stop the water flow?
It was either turning on the electric pump or dripping.....there was no
definitive shut-off.

Second question:  How in the h*ll do you fill the water tank from the
outside?  I stood there like an idiot holding the hose and watching the
water run down the side of the van.  I felt like the dork in the old AAMACO
transmission commercial.  You the know the one...some geek with his hat on
sidewayssaying,"let me fix it boss, I was born to fix a tranthmithion"

Jim in Iowa
91 Passat Wagon GL
89 Westy
66 Beetle