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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:22:00 -0400
Reply-To:     Dave Ohlemacher <Dave@OHLEMACHER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Dave Ohlemacher <Dave@OHLEMACHER.COM>
Subject:      Re: fuel tank sizes
Comments: To: Gary Shea <shea@GTSDESIGN.COM>
Comments: cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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I have a stock 86 and it happens too, maybe the design of the fill pipe?

Dave 86 Vanagon GL

Gary Shea wrote:

> Joe -- I have an '86 tank in my '81 Westy. It went in with absolutely > no glitches, everything bolts into place perfectly. You have to replace > your fill pipe with the one from the later model, it has the same screw > holes, etc. > > My only problem, which I cannot begin to figure out, is that now I > tend to get a lot of overflows while filling the tank. Where as the > old tank seemed to work well with gas pumps, and trigger their shutoffs > early enough, this one usually runs some gas down the side of the van. > A bit annoying. On the plus side, the tank is bigger! I put 14.25 > gallons in the other day. > > I used the '86 sender, it works fine with the '81 gauge, I now have > about twice as much gas left in the red as I used to. In fact I can > go to below the red, whereas I've been known to run out of gas while > still firmly in the red with the '81 tank. > > Hope that's enough detail for you. Be sure to replace all the hoses > while you're down there, mine were all rotten. > > Gary > > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Joe Hunt wrote: > > Heres my problem.............. > > > > I have an 81 Vanagon with a leaking gas tank.......... so I go to my local > > library and I check out the interchange autoparts book and it says thet only > > 1980-81 gas tanks are interchangables? > > > > So my question has any one else with a leaking tank replaced it with one off a > > 1983,85,85 etc. vanagon with success? my fear is finding a good servicable > > 80-81 tank will be rather difficult! Not to mention all the junk yards in my > > area trash the gas tanks!!! > > > > Any body no where i can finda reasonable priced servicable tank > > > > Leaking in NE(only when full) > > > > joe hunt > > 81 vanagon > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Gary Shea shea@xmission.com > Salt Lake City http://www.xmission.com/~shea


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