Date:         Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:07:40 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: CHECK YOUR FUEL LINES!
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>Sorry to hear that ... the crap they put in California gas (which we pay a
>.20¢ addl per gallon over the Federal formulation) called MTBE is a big
>contributor to premature fuel line failures here, resulting in an inordinate
>number of vehicles going up in flames. Not only kills us in the ground
>water, but it roasts us too! The fact is it doesn't even help clean the air
>as purported (UC Davis study), but it decreases fuel mileage -- so you have
>to burn MORE to get where you're going!

My sympathies also! Why not repair the damage? (not economic?)

I will be replacing the entire fuel system in mine when (!) the SVX
engine goes in.

Here in NZ we had a bad batch of gas too... lots of car fires, and
this was NOT rear-engined VWs only! The additives were eating fuel
lines and seals

I had a hose split under my injected 112hp 1974 Passat... only
noticed it when I started smelling fuel out on the highway. Pulled
over, climbed out (engine running) and found a horizontal fountain
shooting out from under the car, spraying on the exhaust on the way.
Could've been a mobile fireball.
--
Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin, New Zealand
64 (3) 473-8863
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh & VW/Toyota van nut