Date:         Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:31:19 -0800
Reply-To:     Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
Subject:      Re: Vanagon and Gas Tank
Comments: cc: jbrush@AROS.NET
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At 01:02 PM 12/05/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Grettings and Happly Holidays!
>RMM says $150 for a new tank. Is that a fair price? Should I even try to
>have the existing one  repaired?

I will suggest that $150 to resolve the issue of future problems from this
critical necessity is money well spent if the source is pin hole rust
through or cracks, particularly if it is a factory tank. If aftermarked
produced, I would want to inspect the quality of materials and workmanship
before being obligated to purchase.

>Can I ask it one more time? How much fun is it to replace the fuel tank in
>an 81 vanagon?

This depends upon attitude. It can be great fun to fix anything right
yourself. Other attitudes will find this job most onerous which garantees
compromise upon which failure to get results is founded.

I also need directions to where it is written how much fuel
>line I will need to replace everything back to the engine, as I might as
>well while I am under there. What size is the line, and what size clamps?
>I am not very metrically inclined.

If you use a metrically inclined caliper to measure the OD of the steel
lines, you will have the empirical data you need. Most of the main rubber
high pressure fuel hose is 7mm ID X 3mm wall thickness, and sold by the
meter. A metrically inclined ruler will provide the empirical length data
you need.

Regards from SJ Island,


T.P. Stephens aka Doktor Tim
Surveyor, Mechanic, Poet, Philosopher
San Juan Island, WA