Date:         Fri, 10 Jun 2005 16:34:46 -0600
Reply-To:     jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
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From:         jimt <camper@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: Fuel Pressure/Hot motor/Power Steering grease
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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.
>
>