On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Richard A Jones <jones@colorado.edu> wrote: > My '81 needs a new gas tank, so I got one. Looking > inside, I see that the fuel pickup tube appears to > not be connected or soldered correctly. Here's what > I see: > http://jones.colorado.edu/jones/VW/pickup.jpg > This is the pickup, shot through the filler hole. > In the back you can see the return which looks OK. > > Is this, indeed, a defective tank?
FWIW Richard, here's one of my pages with a very similar pic of a new tank I got from California Imports: (the number shown in pic 3 is on the new tank) http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/newgastank
Neil.
-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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