Re: [T3] Fuel injectors -- is this safe?

["Gary Gamboa" <gary_gamboa@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>Wow, I still have some of these plastic sleeves. These couldn't be the 
original hoses, can they? No way. They probably reused the plastic sleeves 
after replacing the hoses.



Thank you,

Gary Gamboa





> From: Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>
> Reply-To: type3@vwtype3.org
> To: type3@vwtype3.org
> Subject: Re: [T3] Fuel injectors -- is this safe?
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:08:02 -0500
>
> On 26 Jun 2003 at 15:41, Greg Merritt wrote:
>
> >  I like the look of the externally-braided made-in-Germany hose.
>
> Did you know that VW originally supplied all these engines with a plastic
> sleeve on top of the German hose? So, originally, the only places you could 
> see
> the external braid was an inch or so at the ends.
>
> >  Bummer that the last several batches I got (both 5mm(?) and 7mm)
> > sprung leaks in their second year of service.
>
> If you insist on German hose. Don't buy 7mm. Find someone who has the 7.5mm 
> FI
> hose.
>
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> Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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