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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:10:10 -0400
Reply-To:     "James R. Gilbert" <cb541@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "James R. Gilbert" <cb541@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fuel leak ruins San Jose trip.
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com

Sorry, memory doesn't serve well. I had a gas leak. The location was such that the drips went directly on, or near, the starter motor. The fix is to find the leak. Dumb, but not actually, if you get under the car, and feel around, look around, you'll find the leaking hose, just by feeling/following the hoses. My leak was just in front of the place where the fuel line is 'fixed' to a place on the passenger side of the bottom/inside of the engine cover 'hole'. (I'm trying to be descriptive). There is a metal and neoprene connection point for the fuel line as it comes into, and then on to the engine. From the top, you can probably find this location and then follow with your fingers toward the front of the car for a few inches. That's where my leak was. The fix, new (what? 1/4") hose clamps. It took three for me, I think. At the points where neoprene lines connect to rubber lines, and/or rubber connects to a metal line or the 'fixed' joining point.

My vanagon seems to go along with rubber fuel line, switch to a neoprene line, then go back to a rubber line (some places metal lines or connection points).

Near where the fuel line enters the engine compartment. The clamps rust and get weak, or the hoses deteriorate near the clamps. I think I put in a section of new fuel line (fuel line, not just rubber hose).

Again, memory doesn't serve so good.

Russ

(I just remembered another gasoline leak. This one on the drivers side, just behind the driver door, underneath, along the frame 'joist', the main support frame running longways. The fix, again, was a 1/4" hose clamp. I took off the old clamp, cut a new end to the hose (there was enough slack), and used a new stainless steel clamp. Probably also where a rubber hose met a metal or neoprene part of the fuel line. (What's the fuel line doing over there anyway?)


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