Date:         Fri, 20 Mar 1998 06:44:13 -0500
Reply-To:     Frank Terhaar-Yonkers <fty@CISCO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Frank Terhaar-Yonkers <fty@CISCO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil Breather Hose Problem!
Comments: To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM

TYGON hose (from the hardware store) works as well.  I've had a piece on there
for two years and it's still holding up.  It's so cheap you can afford to
change it as often as you like.

 >From owner-vanagon@VANAGON.COM  Thu Mar 19 23:42:37 1998
 >Date:         Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:06:55 -0800
 >From: Marilyn Nelson-Ehret <ehretrm@SEANET.COM>
 >Subject:      Re: Oil Breather Hose Problem!
 >To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
 >
 >Don't ever buy from the VW dealer unless you have to.  I got a replacement
 >breather for my 90 Syncro at the local parts store by measuring the length and
 >diameter and getting from their bulk pipe roll.  Since they didn't have metric
 >sizes, I got what was close and muscled it on.  Roger Ehret, Gig Harbor.
 >
 >Erlaz wrote:
 >
 >> I recently noticed that a hose coming out of the breather (025-115-451)
 >> heading to the fuel injector system has large cracks in it and it appears that
 >> oil is spraying all over the engine.
 >> Is this a special hose (N900-725-01) or can there be a  substitute repacement
 >> for it? The dealer will only sell me a 3 meter legth of it for $45. It is only
 >> about 10" long and 3/4" in dia. Any ideas?
 >


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Frank Terhaar-Yonkers
Cisco Systems, Inc.
7025 Kit Creek Road  PO Box 14987
Research Triangle Park,  North Carolina  27709
fty@cisco.com   voice (919)472-2101   FAX (919)472-2940