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On 24 Oct 2003 at 17:27, . : orntar : . wrote: > the previous owner has bypassed one (only one) of the fuel lines into the > tunnel. the person drilled a big hole in the shift access (by the pump) and ran > the new rubber line thru the hole and out the drain at the rear of the tunnel > and snaked it up the correct connection point at the forward air tin. i had > assumed that they did this because the line has rusted. but i really don't like > it, because either of the entry/exit points may leak, and would like to put it > back to a hard line. can i test teh existing hard line, or run a new one > (perhaps outside the tunnel under the car)? I ran across another 70 fastback that this was done to. Someone had "replaced" the return line, that's the one on the right side, with some copper tubing and hose. A friend of mine drove it like that for a couple of years as we slowly got the car fixed up and running nicely. Eventually we went after that "fix" and just connected the OE line back up. It turned out to be just fine. We never could figure out why the PO had changed it. For all I know, they didn't know about the overflow hose from the gas filler, and assumed the leak was from the return line instead. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org