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On 12 May 2003 at 7:24, hisham bakr wrote: > Hi all, yesterday on the way home from a friends house 35 miles away, the > fuel filter started choking and the car started to fuel starve. I had also > no tools/spares in the car (never again!). Luckily, there was a Pep Boys > repair shop not too far, so we limped there and I told the service manager > what the problem is and what I needed. He was willing to replace the filter but > he didn't have it. So, I picked a generic one (maybe Toyota) off the shelf, with > the right size inlet/outlet to fit the 8mm fuel lines and told him to use it. > The car runs fine since but my question is: will this filter be as good as the > FI appropriate vw filter? are there pressure, capacity and flow considerations > here that I should watch for? I don't think there's really anything special about the correct type 3 filter. The toyota one should be fine. If you're clogged up, then there is a pretty good chance that your overflow hose is cracked and you'd better fix THAT before it causes serious harm from water in the gas. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org