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Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:27:23 -0500
Reply-To:   Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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From:   Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:   Re: major fuel leak
Comments:   To: Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:   <96c89c360801290910iaafa1d8p245373f1773ac314@mail.gmail.com> (Larry Alofs's message of "Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:10:50 -0600")
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"Larry Alofs" <lalofs@gmail.com> writes:

> The problem with a permanent line going straight across between the > two high points is that the line needs to go above the shift linkage > rod. Hence VW's "clever" approach where you are supposed to get the > tank up there nearly in position and then put the line across and > pop the fittings into the grommets. This calls for a rather strong > but also rather skinny arm and hand.

Or install the shift linkage rod after the tank is already in? Or use flare fittings so a metal line could be attached to metal fittings?

Sorry I think they could have come up with something better. This just seems like a half-hearted attempt to solve a pretty simple problem, using cheap materials, with potentially catastrophic results 10 years later.

> The last time I had my tank down, I switched to a crossover tube > that is FI grade rubber hose long enough to go down and around the > shift linkage etc. so that I could connect it all before raising the > tank. The only complication was positioning it so that the parking > brake cable would not rub against it. Seems to work fine; the tank > fills normally.

If the tube has a low point in the middle where it passes under the shift linkage, won't that act like a trap for liquid fuel, negating the cross-venting function that the tube is supposed to provide?

Allan


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