[T3] Update with a Bowl Full of Rust Flakes

[Dave Hall]

Well, you're free to do that of course.   We're just trying to help, that's
all.

Dave.
VW Type 3&4 Club
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From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
[mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of SCS
Crewcab
Sent: 25 July 2011 02:45
To: type3 at vwtype3.org
Subject: Re: [T3] Update with a Bowl Full of Rust Flakes

OK. Let's leave it at this. There are hidden passageways in everybody's fuel
tank. Never seal your tank or your hidden passageways will get blocked and
you'll run out of gas with your fuel gauge showing 3/8 of a tank full. I'm
going back through the mirror now. They're waiting for me at the wedding.




On 7/24/2011 9:24 PM, Max Welton wrote:
> Well, that is what my 68 squareback sender looks like. And my 67 type-1 KG
as well.
>
> Max Welton
>
> http://www.maxwelton2k.net/
>
> --- On Sun, 7/24/11, SCS Crewcab<scscrewcab at bellsouth.net>  wrote:
>
> From: SCS Crewcab<scscrewcab at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [T3] Update with a Bowl Full of Rust Flakes
> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
> Date: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 7:00 PM
>
> Pardon me, Dave, but I have two FI tanks and they don't look anything 
> like that diagram. I think that may be a Type 34 only design.
>
>
>
> On 7/24/2011 6:38 PM, Dave Hall wrote:
>> You can see a diagram on this webpage, comparing the carb tank and 
>> the FI tank.
>>     http://home.clara.net/hallvw/fuelsend.htm
>>
>> I've heard that all tanks from about '68 have the same internal cup, 
>> but not the return nozzle, obviously, as only the FI models (ie most 
>> USA cars) have the fuel return pipes.
>>
>> Dave.
>> UK VW Type 3&4 Club
>> ===================
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org
>> [mailto:type3-vwtype3.org-bounces at lists.vwtype3.org] On Behalf Of Jim 
>> Adney
>> Sent: 24 July 2011 02:57
>> To: type3 at vwtype3.org
>> Subject: Re: [T3] Update with a Bowl Full of Rust Flakes
>>
>> On 23 Jul 2011 at 18:46, SCS Crewcab wrote:
>>
>>> What passages are you referring to?
>> The FI tank has a sort of "cup" welded to the inside of the tank.
>> That cup has a channel which leads under it, to the return line port.
>> Returning fuel drags fuel from the main part of the tank thru that 
>> channel and into the "cup." So, when the tank is close to empty, the 
>> "cup" will remain full.
>>
>> In essense, this utilizes the return flow of the FI pump to scavenge 
>> gas from the main compartment and put it into the cup that the pump draws
from.
>>
>> If that small passage under the cup is blocked, the only way for gas 
>> to get into the cup and to the pump is over the top of the cup. This 
>> means that once the tank is down to about 3/8 full, the pump will run out
of gas.
>>
>> It's a system that works really well, unless you mess it up.
>>
>> --
>> *******************************
>> Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
>> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
>> *******************************
>>
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