Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 20:27:36 -0400
Reply-To: Michael Sullivan <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>
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From: Michael Sullivan <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>
Subject: Re: need help from someone to look at their engine...
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WOW! that's a TINY hole!!!! Well, I guess I'm gonna have to order it 'cause SEARS sure doesn't have drill bits that small!
BTW, the reason I'm concerned about this little critter is that I suspect I have been collapsing my Syncro fuel tank lately which I believe it is caused by "too much vacuum" somewhere in the system -- I wonder if this could be it?
Thanx!
MJS
At 02:52 PM 6/23/98 -0700, Old Volks Home wrote:
>Try your VW Dealer again.
>
>025-129-420. It's still available (according to VOA in Troy, MI) and in
>the 6-1-98 price list at $5.25 (!) for a teeny-weeny little piece of metal.
> Looks like the parts guy didn't wanna bother ordering it in my opinion.
>Probably better off making it like you suggested.
>
>When swapping in a 2.1 in my 84 Westy last year, I didn't encounter this
>piece. Just went to check it just now and apparently I've been running
>without this piece the whole time I've had it on the road. Dunno if it
>means good or bad. Can anyone with knowledge comment?
>
>See also Pages 24.24 and 24.24a of the Vanagon Bentley. Looks like they
>show a size of .006" or 0.15mm, but they don't indicate if it's ID or OD
>(Probably ID).
>
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>At 04:07 PM 6/23/98 -0400, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>>I am missing a little piece from my fuel evaproative control system called
>a "restrictor" which is a small, 1/2" piece of round metal or plastic rod
>with a small drilled hole in it -- hence the name "restrictor". It is
>located inline with the vacuum hose that comes from the charcoal filter
>valve located in the top-right of the engine compartment as you are looking
>down on the engine.
>>
>>See page 20.16 and 20.33 of the Bentley manual.
>>
>>Well, VW no longer carries this part so I am going to fabricate my own
>from a piece of aluminum rod. Only thing is I don't know how small a hole
>to drill. Could someone measure their's and pmail me with the proper
>dimension???
>>
>>Thanx.
>>Michael J. Sullivan
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>
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