I honestly don't think there is a way to fill the bugger without leaking on the outside. The best results I have had is by using an RV/marine hose (usually white with a blue stripe - lined with food grade plastic) with the end cut off. I insert the cut off end into the filler neck, and just crack the hose bib open a bit. Takes a long time, but it will fill with very little overflow. The other alternative is to just kinda hold it there and let 20% of the water run done the outside of the van. This method is a lot faster, but a bit messier. :-) Brent Christensen '89 Syncro Westy "Klaus" ----- Original Message ----- From: j fritz <jfritz@DECORAH.K12.IA.US> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:49 PM Subject: Westy Water Tank Fill
Volks, OK, first an admission: Don't do the dumb stunt I did....trying to get bleach into the tank through the filler tube on the outside (wanted to kill anything living in there....its our first fill-up with the the water tank). Anyway, overflowed the bleach, it ran down the side and left brown streaks on the paint job :-( I'm hoping rubbing compound will take it out. Now for some questions: I hooked up a hose to the city water fill adapter. Only about 40 lbs. of city pressure but the faucet couldn't hold it. Is there a washer kit for this thing to get it so it will stop the water flow? It was either turning on the electric pump or dripping.....there was no definitive shut-off. Second question: How in the h*ll do you fill the water tank from the outside? I stood there like an idiot holding the hose and watching the water run down the side of the van. I felt like the dork in the old AAMACO transmission commercial. You the know the one...some geek with his hat on sidewayssaying,"let me fix it boss, I was born to fix a tranthmithion" Jim in Iowa 91 Passat Wagon GL 89 Westy 66 Beetle |
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