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On 18 May 2004 at 23:19, Everett Barnes wrote: > > Is there really supposed to be a > metal pipe through the front tin that the rubber fuel hose attaches to on > either side? I just have a hole that I put the hose though. What's supposed > to be there? > My '66: > http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_page.php?pic_id=73577 Is that the way they came from the factory? It actually looks pretty reasonable that way, but my answer was based on the fact that the FI cars just got the hose with a grommet. If your scheme is original, I wonder why VW changed. I suppose it might have something to do with the fact that on the FI cars this hose would be under 30 psi of pressure, so the safety advantage of having a metal tube there at the bulkhead would have to be balanced against the disadvantage of adding 2 more hose connections. Bob Hoover has a suggestion of using a short piece of 3/8" threaded bushing from a lamp fixture and, I think, soldering a tube inside it. This would give you a bulkhead fitting that you could fix in the bulkhead using 2 of the special 3/8" fixture nuts. If you needed to, you could even put a bit of a bend in the metal tube on the engine side to get the rubber hose started off in the right direction. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org