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On 20 Sep 2005 at 18:07, Jim Showker wrote: > Early in the summer we got my son's '69 with EFI working well. Got great > gas mileage on the fwy. However mileage around town was only 17-18 mpg. We > puzzled about this for a long time, til one day I was riding with him and he > was taking a left hand corner pretty hard, and afterwards I smelled gas. We > traced it down and gas was leaking out the rubber to metal boot underneath > the fender. To this point, I was thinking that your story was pretty typical. It's common to find that hose broken and leaking. > The rubber tube that comes out of the trunk is attached to the fill tube > with a clamp. The clamp was as tite as it would go and was not actually > clamping the tubing. Probly cause the dimensions of the rubber had shrunk > over 36 years. I wrapped duct tape around the rubber tube where the clamp > went, to make it bigger. Several wraps around and the clamp then functioned > properly. I'd recommend that you take a moment sometime and just get the correct size clamp. I don't know how long the duct tape will hold up, althought Red Green would be proud of you. This IS the overflow hose, isn't it; I can't imagine what else you could be clamping under there. > No more gas leak on left turns, now, 23-24 mpg in town. ;-) > This is especially interesting, cause the guy that sold us the car had > basically given up, after all kinds of weird fixes (like adding pots in > place of temp sensors), because he could not figure out why the mileage was > bad. He figured the efi was messed up and running rich. Isn't it amazing how we ALL tend to jump to the worst possible conclusions. > So if your gas mileage seems unexplainably bad, check it out. Yes, strong gas smells are always a problem. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~