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----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Wolfe" <russella@prairieinet.net> To: "type3" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [T3] fuel leak > Subject: Re: [T3] fuel leak > > > > >Oh I use what we sell to Daimler-Chrysler, Mercedes, Saturn, General > > Motors, > > > and Ford. yeah, I forgot Volkwagen too. > > > > > > > Is that the cloth braided, Russ? That would be reassuring. > > I find it easy to see a small fuel seep with that, and I would imagine > that > > it's safer for it to 'wick' along the braid and evaporate. > > There's been some very poor pattern hose around. The genuine VW stuff is > > not bad, but expensive of course. > > > > > This is the hose that is used on most modern EFI cars. Most of the newer > cars run fuel pressures all the way to 60 psi. We even have some regulators > on the drawing board for cars that run as high as 65psi. This hose doesn't > look like the orginal VW hose. The cloth braid is vulcanized into the rubber > hose itself. I think it is some type of nylon/polyester fabric. This is a 2 > ply hose. Inner rubber, fabric, Outer rubber. The hose is rated for 250 psi > burst, but I personally have taken it to about 450psi, doing distruct tests > on filters. Yes the hose did burst before the filter went, but the stainless > filter looked like a football at those pressures. I trust this hose over the > orginal VW hose that came on our cars. I own a 1992 Dodge pickup with 120k > miles, that has this hose and have never had a fuel leak. > > Russ Wolfe > russw@classicvw.org > http://www.classicvw.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org