Well, that's interesting, Jeff. Looks like a different air cleaner box. Mine is oval and has no hose barb for vent hose attachment. That Ekta page shows model years 85-92, but below the illustration it says syncro 85-86, so maybe the earlier models had the vent hose connected to the air cleaner.
On Mar 17, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:09:45 -0700 > From: VW Doka <vw.doka@GMAIL.COM> > Subject: Re: Fuel Tank Weirdness > > Keith, > > No charcoal cannisters should vent to the atmoshpere (that is bad). > They > should always be recirculated back into the intake. Even '70s era > VW bugs > had a closed system for the charcoal cannister. Syncros are no > exception. > > This diagram from ETKA shows the proper routing for the syncro: > > http://www.autostadtwest.com/docs/033-02.pdf > > > Cheers, > > Jeff |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.