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Re: [T3] mystrey pipe


On 15 Apr 2001, at 12:44, connie schmitt wrote:

> I have a 1971 fastback and I found a pipe under the drivers
> side fender (left hand drive) that goes all the way to the
> back of the car but I don't know where it comes from or
> where it goes to in the back, can anyone tell me what it is?

It's part of the fuel vapor control system, an emissions thing to 
keep gas fumes from just venting to the atsmophere. It originally 
connected the overflow tank (under the LF fender) to the charcoal 
cannister (above the transmission.) The support bracket for the 
overflow tank rusted away a few years ago on most of these cars, but 
they might still be there on a sun belt car.

This system really has no way of still being functional. All the 
steel hoses rusted closed on the inside long ago, even if they look 
reasonably intact on the outside.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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