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Hi all, Apologies in advance for my long winded mail: Over the weekend I was tinkering with my timing, etc. Sunday afternoon I drove over to a friends house and noted that my idle was high, so I popped the hatch to nudge it down a bit and noticed that the hose feeding #1 injector was wet with fuel. I allowed the car to cool a bit, adjusted the hose clamp and primed the circuit. No leak. Started her up, ran around for a look... no leak. I drove to work Monday morning, and on a whim popped the hatch to have a glance and the top of the tin that shields the 1/2 exhaust manifold is drenched in gas. 8O %$#@! A couple years back I had noticed such leaking from the injectors, and my quick fix (due to a lack of spares) was to gently trim the cracked & deteriorated end to expose what appeared to be fresh rubber. This quick fix has now surpassed it's useful lifespan. So what did I do? I tried to gently trim some more just to limp home. Surprize, surprize, it failed to work. After getting a ride home from a co-worker I broke out my box of spares, and to my dismay all but 1 pair were well beyond usefulness. Thankfully, that 1 pair acted well to the 'quick fix' treatment, and stopped the leak & got me home :) I recall the subject of replacing hoses surfacing a little while back... take care not to sever a metal barb? I'm planning on replacing these wasted hoses soon, might just be enough of an excuse to buy a new Dremel tool :) Any words of caution before I begin? Cheers, Curtis C.Rochambeau 327/1600 http://binauralaboratories.net ~electronic manipulation's our specialty~ ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org