Ron - I found one of the best ways to stop fuel leaks is with a lighter...oh wait, that's only to fix fuel leaks on cars that I don't like...
Larry - thanks for the informative reply. It's such a change from VW Vortex where everyone is an expert but no one has "street cred" unless their car is scraping the pavement with a 1.8 swap. Are you getting any fuel to the accumulator or fuel pump "box"? Try putting 10v to the transfer pump (yes, 10v b/c it doesn't run on 12v b/c some engineer decided that was best) and see if you're getting fuel out of the tank. Then test the input at the "box". There aren't that many metal lines on the Mk2 cars but they have a few metal devices that could be easily upset when trying to pump gasoline-jelly. If you have access to compressed air, you may want to open both ends of the lines from the tank to the box and from the box to the fuel distributor. Then squirt in some carb cleaner and force it thru with compressed air. Put a rag (preferably held by a human) at the other end to keep from making a huge mess and also to get an idea of how much crud is coming out of the lines. On Monday, July 21, 2014 2:44 PM, Ron Darner <[email protected]> wrote: "/I stuff something into the fuel line to slow the leak/." Me, too. One of the handiest I've found are golf tees. However, I've observed painted wooden tees losing the paint (being dissolved by gasoline), and at least one plastic one that softened. SOME bare wood tees will hold liquid back pretty well. I got lucky a couple of years back & found a bag of them at a yard sale for like 50 cents (I don't golf, though I have often Golf'ed, Rabbit'ed, Jetta'ed, etc.). I've also used center punches and similar items to plug soft tubing. Ron _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above. _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list For list archives, see listinfo link above.
