Date:         Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:32:33 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: What the heck is this?
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
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Yeah, I have a Bentley, Alastair.

So tell me -- if you had no idea what that thing was, which chapter
would you first jump to in Bentley?


On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 18:47 -0700, Alistair Bell wrote:

> You own a Bentley Rocky? There is a nice diagram of it there.
> :)
>
> Don't you have a mate for that tank on the other side? It's part of the fuel expansion/vapour trapping system, isn't it?
>
> alistair
>
> On 2011-07-10, at 6:07 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
> > In the driver's side front wheel well is a bulgy-shaped tank of
> > translucent white plastic. Looks like something that fell out of a cow's
> > nose, if the cow was the size of a house.
> >
> > There is a tube, or stiff hose, that goes to it, or sorta close to it.
> > My son and I found this loose tube today when we were routing wires for
> > gauge senders from the engine compartment forward. Can't tell where the
> > tube went or if it's just supposed to hang there, open like that.
> >
> > See photo at
> >
> > <https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FoRHHsDdb8sM2I7wJ6XxVlJbs0jfqWzYGmp3wNhwT3E?feat=directlink>
> >
> > What is that tank and what is that tube/hose?
> >
> > 1984, 1.9L, auto transmission. Shoe size: 10W, favorite color: orange.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rocky J Squirrel (Jack Elliott)
> > '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> > '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> > Bend, OR
> > KG6RCR
>