Date:         Fri, 16 May 2008 12:28:02 -0400
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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From:         The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Older gas tank problems- was Noisy fuel pump causes
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> OK,  folks, one more time just to fill up the archives !
> The OEM  gas tanks have a problem and it cannot be repaired.
> When they become  blocked and restrict the flow of gas to the
>  pump the pump will starve for  fuel.  When the pump is starved
> for fuel it whines because the lubrication  of the ball bearings
> in side is the FUEL !  Those gas tanks have a screen  filter
> housed inside a sealed metal box at the bottom of the tank.
> The  outlet and return lines to that box inside the tank are
> made of RUBBER or some  similar product, that
> after all these years is disintegrating.   So..... you cannot
> replace those rubber lines and you cannot clean that screen.
> ALL Vanagons will eventually have this problem sometime in
> their  life.  Now, this story is in the archives one more time !


FWIW, we sell new replacement tanks for $169 (for everything but Syncro).

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
  (215)  234-VWVW

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