Date:         Sun, 5 Dec 1999 15:12:12 -0800
Reply-To:     Otmar List Account <otlists@EVCL.COM>
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From:         Otmar List Account <otlists@EVCL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon and Gas Tank
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>At 01:02 PM 12/5/99 -0700, John Brush wrote:
> >Grettings and Happly Holidays!
> >
> >I had to abandon the list for a while as the ex got the house and garage,
> >and I had no place to work on my Vanagon, but I now have a garage, and the
> >worst thing has happened.
> >
> >I think I have a hole in the gas tank. :( Naturally, its 10 degrees
> >outside and snow all over the place. I know that the fuel lines,
> >especially the ones that go to the overflow resevoirs, are in bad shape,
> >but as I look underneath, I see gas dripping from the tank, more towards
> >the rear, and center of the tank, than the outside edges. The Van has
> >200K+ on it, so I am not surprised at the need for repairs, but why does
> >it always happen in the winter??? :-)

John,
It sounds like you need a fix to get you through the winter.
Assuming it's leaking from the bottom, I see some options:
1) Take some Ivory soap (nothing with perfume in it) and rub it over
the area with the hole in it. Soap holds up well to gasoline and
fills the hole.

Or:

2) Go to your FLAPS and get a "Gas tank repair kit" It's a two part
epoxy that you knead together and stick on the wet leaking tank.
Costs less than $5. I carry one ever since I made my own tank.
Haven't needed it yet :-)

  -Otmar-
82/86 Stretch Vanagon Westfalia Syncro GTI. "Power of two"
http://www.evcl.com/strvan/strvan.html
Several EVs (Electric Vehicles)