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It's not the heat it's the humidity! It doesn't have to be cold, just humid. I had this problem on a motorcycle when I forgot to shut off the petcock. Fuel would drip out the carb and freeze out in the summer in Seattle. Think how cold it gets when you spill any solvent on your hand. This is the heat of evaporation and how the A/C works in those cars that have them, not my T3 though. If it's tool cold, it doesn't evaporate enough to freeze. Jeff - now that I think about it, I shoulda known there was a problem with fuel when this happened. Silt and sand in the tank kept the float open, and eventually killed the carbs. -----Original Message----- > The evaporating fuel leaking from a split in > the hose had been condensing moisture from the > atmosphere in the cool breeze, and turning it to ice crystals. Interesting. What was the temp outside? I'm surprised that simple evaporation of gasoline would get things this cold, unless the ambient was already pretty cold. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org