Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:09:00 -0800
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
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From: Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: Reality check
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Not that I could do. If you order the replacement kit from a list vendor
make sure you get a new grommet for the vent line on the input pipe.
Mike
On 12/16/02 1:01 PM, "Joseph Fortino" <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET> wrote:
> might have to still drop the tank huh?
>
> thanks much
> Joe
>
> On 16 Dec 2002, Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> Usually it's the vent lines on top that are
>> leaking so it may not be the actual tank.
>>
>> YMMV>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 12/16/02 12:34 PM, "Joseph Fortino"
>> <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET> wrote:
>>
>>> my friend had a 21 window pop out windows in
>>> the front burn up. 1 good thing about VW
>>> metal is you can always reuse :) i need my
>>> gas tank replacd * drips on full tank
>>> sometimes.
>>>
>>> On 16 Dec 2002, Robert Keezer wrote:
>>>
>>>> That looks like Pat Callaghan's green '77
>>>> adventurwagen that burned completely in 15
>>>> minutes last summer near The Dalles,
>>>> Oregon.
>>>>
>>>> He was coming back from a camping trip-
>>>> first trip in the new bus. He had replaced
>>>> half the fuel lines- but not all.
>>>>
>>>> If this is his Bus, coincidently this is
>>>> the same bus I installed a gas heater in
>>>> three years ago for the PO.
>>>>
>>>> He has offered this warning many times too-
>>>> make sure all the fuel lines are replaced
>>>> at least every ten years, not every twenty.
>>>>
>>>> Wasn't the heater that started the fire- it
>>>> was 100 degrees out that day.
>>>>
>>>> Robert K
>>>>
>>>> 1982 Westfalia
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From: Ken Lewis <kdlewis@JUNO.COM>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Fuel lines, check them often.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.vintagebus.com/gallery/image-
>>>>> /10-
>>>>> 629.JPG
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Robert 1982 Westfalia 1987 Wolfsburg
>>>>
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