Date:         Sat, 6 Jul 2013 17:18:38 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Home safe but still a question about that FI plug...
Comments: To: Bryan Feddish <uprightbassghost@HOTMAIL.COM>
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At 04:13 PM 7/6/2013, Bryan Feddish wrote:
>Thanks again to everyone that helped on Thursday.

:-)

>I had just parked the van in the rare coveted 
>parking spaces along the boardwalk in Cape May, 
>NJ when I found the leak in the FI hose. I still 
>have a question about that plug.  Please take a 
>look at http://www.csp-dev.com/vw/fi1.html . The 
>top green plug was the one in question. Everyone 
>told me to press down on the wire to expand the 
>wire around the ears.  As you can see by the 
>picture, the wire doesn’t appear it wants to 
>go anywhere in  any direction.   I ended up just 
>prying the jack off over the ears.  What am I 
>missing here? Is this plug broken or is there 
>some other way to neatly get it off?

Different plug, obviously.  This one looks as 
though it wants a screwdriver stuck down into the 
little bail and pried sideways, but hard to say 
for sure without seeing the underside.


>The second picture down is the old injector. 
>What I am curios about this is why does the hose 
>appear to be attached permantely to the 
>injector?   Could I have replaced this hose? I 
>ended up putting in a spare injector I carry with my parts bag.

That's a special self-sealing setup used by 
OEM.  You just shove the square-cut hose over the 
barb all the way and the ring captures the 
end.  To remove the hose you have to either slice 
the hose or cut the ring off with a Dremel.  It's 
very clever and in theory re-usable, but if your 
hose doesn't have the same O.D. as the original you run into problems.


>It was a white knuckle ride back to PA as I 
>wasn’t sure the used injector I put in was OK. 
>For some odd reason I’ve most of  my 
>mechanical issues on my 4th of July journeys in the last few years.

I can tell you from recent experience that if it 
hadn't been working you'd have noticed.  Taking 
the plug off mine to show you disturbed the other 
one and it lost contact.  Engine fires fine on 
three cylinders, but what a slug!  Cycling the plug cured it.

Yours,
David