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On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 10:20, Dave Hall wrote: > > > > Was a street elbow, or a regular elbow? > > It was one we would use on with solder on the copper water pipe to a tap inside > the house, so it may not be identical to what you in the USA would use. I guess > your street fittings are screw-in and quite thick-walled, like the ones Jim had > on the full-flow oil-filter. > > You need an elbow that has an external diameter similar to the nylon breather T > you are going to connect the hose to at the tank end. The hose would stretch a > bit; our elbows go round 15mm ext diam, so must be about 16mm dia, but there may > be something closer in size to use. > By "street elbow" here in the colonies, we mean an elbow fitting with male on one end, and female on the other. Whether it is a solder fitting, or threaded fitting. I use a 1/2" copper solder fitting on mine. I connect the female end to the fill neck with a very short piece of hose, and a couple clamps. I then run a piece of 5/8" (16mm) hose from that to the "Tee" inside the trunk. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org