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Melissa & Jim wrote: > > I have a question about a part that I have never seen adequately explained. > It is the small short steel, in-line cylinder that follows the fuel pump in > FI cars. It is located in a loop of hose that pokes through a block-off > plate in the right side of the front axle beam. > > I have a few books that refer to it as a muffler or damper, but it does not > appear in the Bosch D-Jetronix service pages, in the VW microfilm, or in the > Bentley manual. > > Has anyone ever taken one of these apart? What is inside? I could do this, > but I don't want to sacrifice a good one, and I don't have any that have > rotted through yet. > > Jim > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Melissa Kepner Jim Adney > jadney@vwtype3.org jradney@njackn.com > Laura Kepner-Adney > Madison, Wisconsin > --------------------------------------------------------------------- There's nothing in there (according to a VW mechanic friend I trust) . It's a noise supressor. If it's gone, the little hiss you hear the fuel pump do when you turn the key will become a whine. That's all. It's purely asthetic, to keep people from being annoyed (like anyone could ever be annoyed w/ a VW!!!) -T