Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 22:16:30 -0400
Reply-To: "Russell, William" <william.russell@UW-INC.COM>
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From: "Russell, William" <william.russell@UW-INC.COM>
Subject: Re: Leaking Gas Tank
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Stan,
That would be an excellent idea except for one thing: I live in
Hamilton, Ontario and the shop was in Vancouver, British Columbia.
That's about 4500km away. As Homer would say, "D'Oh!"
\/\/i!!y
-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Wilder [mailto:wilden1@juno.com]
Sent: May 27, 2002 19:47
To: william.russell@UW-INC.COM
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Leaking Gas Tank
local shop to get some work done
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I'd take it back to those nice guys at the local shop and let them work
through the Bentley to get it right.
With me it would be a matter of revenge for all the trouble they put me
through.
Turn about fair play and so forth.
Stan Wilder
On Mon, 27 May 2002 19:23:25 -0400 "Russell, William"
<william.russell@UW-INC.COM> writes:
> So, while my baby (van) sat waiting for me to come and pick it up in
> Vancouver, I decided to have my brother drop it off at a local shop
> to
> get some work done. I don't have the name with me right now but I
> will
> send it to everyone later as I would NOT recommend that anyone use
> this
> shop. I needed a new gas tank so I asked them to replace it.
> Unfortunately, I was not aware of the genuine vs. knock-off argument
> for
> tanks and the shop decided I didn't need to make that decision and
> installed a knock-off. That's fine. I can deal with that. They
> replaced it and put $10 of gas in it. Thanks. Unfortunately, the
> next
> time I filled it up (and tried squeezing every drop that I could
> into
> the tank) I gave the gas attendants a heart attack. My baby was
> peeing
> gasoline out as quickly as I was putting it in. Upon inspection I
> realized that there were hoses missing that connect the tank to the
> overflow reservoir on the driver's side. (nice job) I immediately
> returned to the shop quite pissed off and they quickly threw on a
> couple
> pieces of hose.
>
>
>
> I thought it was fixed and headed off across the country.
> Unfortunately, at the next fill up I realized that now instead of
> peeing
> gas in a nice even stream, it was just gushing from the bottom front
> of
> the tank. The tank itself does not seem to be leaking, it's got to
> be
> somewhere in the lines.
>
>
>
> I looked at Bently and I notice that there is a line that connected
> the
> overflow escape on the top/front/right hand side of the tank to the
> overflow on the top/front/left hand side of the tank. I suspect
> that
> piece is missing. Does anyone have any other ideas? If not, do I
> need
> to remove the tank in order to replace that piece? :(
>
>
>
> \/\/i!!y
>
> 1980 Westy "Jazzy"
>
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