{"id":3853,"date":"2017-10-30T06:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2017-10-30T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T13:31:30","slug":"vw-kombi-fuel-tank-fitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3853","title":{"rendered":"VW Microbus fuel tank fitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0910r.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0910r\" width=\"800\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0910r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0910r-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this part even has a VW part number &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oemepc.com\/vw\/part_single\/catalog\/vw\/markt\/ZA\/modell\/T2\/year\/1995\/drive_standart\/275\/hg_ug\/201\/subcategory\/201005\/part_id\/3687086\/lang\/e#sec_8\">ETKA<\/a> claims that it&#8217;s part of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realoem.me\/search\/tvn\/251201166\" target=\"_blank\">251201166<\/a>, the breather line. Anyway, it plugs into a grommet on the tank and if it&#8217;s in two pieces like this one, you get fuel leaking out when the tank is more than about 3\/4 full.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and superglue is not an answer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0911r-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0911r\" width=\"695\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0911r-695x1024.jpg 695w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0911r-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0911r.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This hose repair kit, however, is.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0914r.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0914r\" width=\"800\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0914r.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0914r-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close enough for me. I used smaller pipe clamps than the ones in the kit. And for the record I&#8217;m getting pretty good at R&amp;R-ing the tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think this part even has a VW part number &#8211; ETKA claims that it&#8217;s part of \u00a0251201166, the breather line. Anyway, it plugs into a grommet on the tank and if it&#8217;s in two pieces like this one, you get fuel leaking out when the tank is more than about 3\/4 full. Oh, and superglue is not an answer. This hose repair kit, however, is. Close enough for me. I used smaller pipe clamps than the ones in the kit. And for the record I&#8217;m getting pretty good at R&amp;R-ing the tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-volksiebus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}