Date:         Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:51:58 -0700
Reply-To:     neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         neil n <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Good fuel filter arrangement?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com>
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I "upgraded" my '81 to the later MY type fuel filter setup. Pics/text of
what I did here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/FuelFilterUpgrade#

And here's the part I used to adapt the smaller type fuel tank outlet to
the fuel pump inlet. Not cheap btw. :

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-xjEq_U6UqQY/SkABHDhTngI/AAAAAAAAAoU/Bss3pAcbCCE/s720/FuelPumpAdapter.jpg

Looking again at those pics, I might have been wise to install the adapter
at the tank outlet get rid of the rubber hose/nylon bit shown. This would
obviously mean running longer hose from filter to engine bay.

Did all this to help quell pump noise. It did not do that. That said, pump
noise has not gotten worse.

Neil.

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:



> On my van ('84, 1.9L) the arrangement is like this:
>
> gas tank > small square plastic filter > fuel pump > large round metal
> filter > ring line
>
> As shown on Bentley 20.26
>
> I read on the Bus Depot web site that, "Some 84 and older models still
> sport the small capacity square plastic filter. VW determined that the
> flow was restrictive and upgraded to the larger capacity metal fuel
> filter for later years."
>
> And they sell adapter kits, one consisting of a simple 7mm-to-12mm
> adapter that lets a fellow bypass the small square plastic filter, to
> one that replaces it with the metal type.
>
> Which seems like it would put one round metal type before the pump, and
> one (the existing one) after it?
>
> To heck with all that -- what's the good setup for fuel filtering?
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>



--
Neil n

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