Re: Re: [T3] 71 Square dying

[Tim Dapper <tdapper@phoenixdsl.com>]

The t3's are supposed to have a screen at the pick up tube in the gas tank.  If missing, the ping pong ball can follow the vortex down and be sucked onto the top of the pick up tube, interrupting the gas flow.

Tim Dapper

> 
> From: "Jim Adney" <jadney@vwtype3.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:52:28 -0500
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] 71 Square dying
> 
> On 23 Aug 00, at 10:42, Michael Carmody & Lucy Alfonso wrote:
> 
> > Check your gas tank for a ping-pong ball. Oldest prank in the book, and it only
> > works on older cars with the oversized leaded gas filler tubes.
> 
> ???? I can only imagine 2 possible outcomes from this:
> 
> 1) The ball floats harmlessly on the top of the gas and you never 
> know that it's there.
> 
> 2) The ball dissolves in the gas and either does nothing (most 
> likely), or gunks up the engine when it burns.
> 
> What else could happen?
> 
> -
> Jim Adney
> jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, WI 53711-3054
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