Thanks for the heads up on the sand in the expansion tanks. I have done the Wilfy kit for the expansion tanks within the past 3 years, so I should be okay there. Even at that time as I looked into the bottom of the tank, I saw no rust or sediment when the tank was out. Max At 05:34 PM 6/10/2005, jimt wrote: >Highly recommend an inspection of those seals. Not hard to do. The hard >part is finding the screws under the undercoating if your wells had the >factory undercoating. After constant problems with clogged filters I >checked mine after a suggestion. I found one had rotted out completely with >shreds down in the jug. The other was rotted enough that it fell apart as I >was looking at it. Both jugs were full of crap. I thoroughly cleaned them >and flushed the lines going to the tank from them. > >Be very careful though. Before I did the check I pulled the jugs off of my >spare van and on one the nipple at the bottom snapped off. Very brittle >from age. >jimt > >On 6/10/05 3:40 PM, "Roger Sisler" <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > > > You may want to check the rubber seals that go to the expansion tanks. They > > are on each side of the front wheel wells. What happens is that sand is > > thrown up by the wheels and it gets into the gas tank through the torn > > seals.This is a VW dealer partX2=$5.00. > > > > |
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