Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 18:18:43 -0700
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <j.michael.elliott@ADELPHIA.NET>
Subject: Re: fuel hoses
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Thanks for getting back, Ken. Hope you had a nice vacation!
Looking at the hose offerings on your site, I see five hoses for the
1.9l WBX. The 7mm fuel hose is:
Part Number : N10303501*
Fuel Hose for 83-85 1.9L Vanagon (7x3mm). Suitable for high pressure
applications (fuel injection)
And there are four more that pop up when doing a fuel delivery search:
Part Number : N90099601*
Fuel Hose for 83-85 1.9L Vanagon 5.5x 3.0
and
Part Number : N0203761*
Fuel Hose for 83-85 1.9L Vanagon (see FX 9 X 3)
and
Part Number : N0203071*
Fuel Hose for 83-85 1.9L Vanagon 17x2.5mm (sold by the meter)
and
Part Number : N90402301*
Fuel Hose for 83-85 1.9L Vanagon 14x2.5(and vent) 14mm I.D.
Where do the 5.5mm, 9mm, 17mm and 14mm hoses go?
Sorry for the questions, this all may be stuff you Vanagon experts know.
This 84 WBX is a lot more complicated than my 71 baywindow!
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
KG6RCR
Kenneth Wilford wrote:
>It is 7mm for sure and you only want to use the high pressure hose like we have in our kit. One of the ways you can tell it is high pressure is that it has the smooth rubber outter skin. Never use the braided hose for fuel line in the engine compartment of your van. It was not made for the high pressure applications and can burst. I have also had problems with fuel line I bought from Napa several years ago. It got hard as a rock within a few weeks and even burst on me. That was before I started selling the German hose with clamps kit (fuel 1). Sorry I didn't get back to you. It sounds like when I was away on vacation.
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>Hope this helps.
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>Ken Wilford
>John 3:16
>www.vanagain.com
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>>jbange wrote:
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>>>>Does anyone sell a complete fuel hose replacement set? Or lacking that,
>>>>is there a list of types, diameters and lengths that are needed to do
>>>>the job?
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>>>It's pretty much just hose n' clamps; 5mm hose for the breather
>>>system, and
>>>7mm hose for the rest. The 5mm breather system isn't pressurized, so it
>>>probably doesn't need replacement. I have so far been unwilling to
>>>drop the
>>>fuel tank to inspect mine, so I'm not sure how long they are or how well
>>>they age. 4 meters of 7mm will do the entire vehicle, 3 meters if you're
>>>just doing the engine compartment. Not sure exactly how many hose clamps
>>>the whole system takes, but I think a dozen will do the engine
>>>compartment
>>>lines, and 6-8 more should do the rest. I have a 3 meter coil of nice
>>>cloth-sheathed fuel line from VolksCafe
>>>(http://volkscafe.com/main.jsp?pa=p&p=1812649455&pct=680049311&ct=586555328)
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>>>under my rear seat that I've been meaning to use to replace the lines
>>>on my
>>>'90, but apparently my plan is to wait until it catches fire before I get
>>>off my butt and do it.
>>>
>>>John Bange
>>>'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
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>>Hi John,
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>>Thanks to you and all who have responded via p-mail to my post.
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>>I am getting some conflicting information on hose sizes, lengths, etc.,
>>and want to be certain that I order the right stuff. The vehicle is an
>>84 1.9l WBX.
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>>Your recommendation of "4 meters of 7mm will do the entire vehicle, 3
>>meters if you're just doing the engine compartment." Is not the same as
>>Joel Walker's article at
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>>http://www.vanagonauts.com/index.phtml?catid=136 , in which he sez "8mm
>>(can't recall the inches-size). pretty sure it's 8mm. this is the most
>>hose you'll need. get about 20 feet. - 10mm. you'll only need about two
>>feet of this one."
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>>Vanagain.com sells a wonderful variety of hoses in all sorts of
>>diameters. A month or so ago I e-mail Ken Wilford at vanagain.com
>>asking for a "shopping list" of what I should buy, his site is a bit
>>clunky to me, and I guess he didn't have a chance to respond. He does
>>have a kit, "Fuel1," (do a search, the search engine is case-sensitive)
>>which has 10-feet of 7mm line only, and some nice clamps.
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>>So, that's two votes for 7mm (4 meters or ten feet, depending on who
>>said what)
>>And one vote for 8mm (maybe) at 20 feet.
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>>It may be that the different model/year/engines have different fuel line
>>requirements?
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>>PS - waiting until the bus catches fire before replacing the hoses? I
>>don't see anything wrong with that. Some guys throw out everything in
>>the refrigerator as soon as the expiration date has passed, others wait
>>until the milk has turned into cottage cheese before doing so. It's a
>>matter of personal style, I reckon!
>>
>>--
>>Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
>>84 Westphalia: "Mellow Yellow (The Electrical Banana)"
>>KG6RCR
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