RE: [T3] Fuel or what?

["Bryan \"bc\" Castles" <bc@version3.net>]

Got it fixed.  It was gas. I couldn't smell it because it was leaking while
I was driving, and I must have gotten used to the smell.  I could definitely
smell it when I went to my car to leave.  Made a 12" puddle in about 14
seconds... yikes!

And the problem was...
The return fuel line! Yeah for Robb, well partly.  It wasn't blocked, the
E-brake cable sawed a very long notch into it, and it must have started
leaking a day or two ago.  I suspect it just got huge when I went to lunch
today.  It is amazing how a 15 minute fix took me 3 hours to do because I
couldn't find any 7.5mm fuel line anywhere.  Another guy was happy to argue
with me and sell me the wrong size, so that wasted time. I didn't therefore
get to work on any of the other problems.  I'll be taking a look at all of
the suggestions through the week and the weekend.

Thanks for all of the help on this one!  Glad I had so many suggestions
about what to look for, if it hadn't been so easy to spot once under the
car... I really would have needed them.

Bryan Castles
Arlington, TX
USA

'64 Sunroof Beetle
'70 Bus (Ex-Westy)
'73 Square
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-----Original Message-----
From: phil cain [mailto:bearsvw2000@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:50 PM
To: Bryan Castles; Type3
Subject: Re: [T3] Fuel or what?


--- Bryan Castles <bc@version3.net> wrote:
>
> >
> As I pulled into my parking spot at work (pulled
> past it, then backed into
> it) I noticed a trail of liquid on the ground under
> the engine and it is
> dropping from who knows where.  Put my finger in it.
>  It's clear, not very
> oily, but doesn't have a real strong odor> It
> looks like it coming from the driver side front of
> the engine (number 2>

> Drivers side front is # 3, along the center line of
the car, at the end of the tunnel(in front of the
transmission)is a drain hole, looks like a black
rubber tit sticking out, is the fluid coming out from
there. There are two fluids that run in the tunnel,
brake fluid and gas, clear and hard to smell would be
brake fluid, gas just smells like gas, don't know how
else to explain gas. Let us know which one it is. Phil


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