Re: [T3] Leak

[Aaron Clow <variant_1600-vwtype3@yahoo.com>]

--- Daniel Baum <daniel@type34.info> wrote:
> > One of the very first things I was told as an
> > aircooled VW owner was to NEVER have a fuel filter
> in
> > the engine compartment... EVER. 
> > 
> 
> 
> It seems to me that if you've ever had one of these
> come undone then 
> you're using the wrong size fuel hose.

I have never had one come undone (never had one in the
engine compartment to start with). I have just heard
the classic stories of people who had these, claimed
they were properly clamped, and whose engines went up
in a bonfire when something came loose and the nice
gasoline pump started pumping gasoline all over the
engine.

I was told many times that even clamped, this is a
very very bad idea. Just my $.02, and I have seen many
many filters in the engine compartment in my time, so
perhaps it's not as big a problem as I thought. I just
figured why tempt fate. It's just as easy to locate it
somewhere else.

Aaron



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