[T3] my long term issue have to unplug TS1 for a smooth idle.

[William Jahn]

ISP west is the only place that sells the boot with the grommet the later
one. They also sell the gasket for the filler to the case. Yes I looked at
my seal under the filler neck that mounts to the body with two bolts. It
looks like it will fall into crumbs. The one under the filler cap is rubber
yet it looks fine, I think I made my own out of a rubber gasket from a ford
filler cap . I don't know what the one under the filler neck was made out
of . If it turns to crumbs perhaps I can just make one out of thick gasket
material . It looks like the filler neck flange has compressed what ever
that gasket is made of. I've never had it off. I know ISP west sells the
cap gasket the boot and the case to filler gasket don't see the filler neck
flange to body gasket. Mine is black , it's still there yet does not look
good.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 12:14 PM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 8 Oct 2019 at 10:21, William Jahn wrote:
>
> > I sent photo's of the old mounts and replaced mounts . ISP sells a filler
> > boot it looks like it has a sort of grommet where it fits from the engine
> > side then just a straight tube once in the hole. They show the same one
> > for all T-3's .
>
> Yes, the new version superceeds the old version and fits all Type 3s. To
> install the new one, you'll need to remove the filler cap assy, then the
> new
> one, with its attached grommet will slide in easily. The bigger problem is
> the
> rubber seal under the filler cap. VW failed to make that out of oil
> resistant
> rubber, so they are always swelled up and destroyed by now.
>
> > I imagine once a new boot is fitted which I will do it will fit the
> > fill tube where the oil cap sits tighter , Mine seems snug yet can be
> > rotated yet it does not leak oil at that area.
>
> The filler assy has a neck that sticks snugly down into the bellows,
> holding it
> in place. They will never leak there, as the oil would have to flow uphill
> to get
> out.
>
> > I also wanted to replace the gasket between the engine and oil fill
> > pipe since I noticed mine is not parallel it's a 1/4" higher where the
> > dip stick fits and stops.
>
> That gasket is an odd one, not commonly available. Try to save your old
> one. If you take the filler pipe out, check the flatness of the flange
> with a
> straightedge. Those flanges are quite soft and they often get bent if
> people
> use the pipe to move the engine when rebuilding. Bent flanges leak. The
> flange can be straightened in a vise.
>
> Note also that there was a VW special tool to set the position of the
> bottom
> end of the filler PIPE (not the flange), because that's where the oil
> level is
> measured from (where the dipstick hits.)
>
> --
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