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Some time ago I asked if anyone had come across one of the little cylindrical metal boxes that are found in-line just in front of the T3 FI fuel pumps--a dead one, that is. Well Keith Park found one that had rusted through and agreed to send it to me for dissection. It arrived today. You may recall that it has a crimped seam around its "waist" so I planned to just grind off the rolled over metal and let the parts fall apart. The first thing I noticed about Keith's unit was that he had sandblasted it, thus revealing that the inlet and outlet nipples were brazed in place. This was a surprise, but not as much as when I discovered that the two halves of the body were also brazed together. I realized that as I tried to grind away the crimp and found that even with the rolled over metal gone the two halves were still stuck together firmly. So I stuck it in a lathe and turned down the seam until it broke apart. You know what's in there? Absolutely NOTHING! It was completely empty, no baffle, no coarse filter mesh, nada. The only difference between the inside and the outside was that there was very little rust in the inside. Next time I'm under there installing new hose, I will NOT be putting this part back in place. It's a fair amount of work to get it in place just right, it takes extra hose and hose clamps, and it is something else which can leak. So thanks for the part, Keith. I'm afraid it caught in the tooling and got kind of bent up as it came open; would you like it back? Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Kepner Jim Adney Laura Kepner-Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------