[urq] Fw: Fuel tank vent

[Keith]

Ah, well, yes. If you remember I couldn’t work out the cause of the fuel 
smell in the cabin. I checked the family album to see the correct layout of 
the tank vent system and discovered that some quattros had a gravity valve 
in line and some didn’t but I figured that even if they didn’t have one 
fitted they would still not have smelled of fuel. So I looked further. One 
of you who replied to my call for help suggested the 15mm bore braided 
rubber pipe from the top of the tank to the filler neck so I began by 
replacing this. Cheapest and easiest fix first. Anyway this seems to have 
fixed it. I cut some of the old pipe open to see if it was cracked. It wasn’t 
but it must have been porous because the fuel smell is most definitely gone. 
So again , thanks for all the help on this one too. All is well once again. 
Now it’s time for someone else to monopolise the urq list!

Keith

'87 WR

-----Original Message----- 
From: Keith
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 5:01 PM
To: urq at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [urq] Fuel tank vent

Thanks to everyone who replied to my post. I have today changed the big 
braided pipe from top of tank to filler neck. It looked fine but felt a bit 
iffy when squeezed so I changed it. Will see if any difference in a day or 
two.
If that doesn’t solve it, it’s fit a gravity valve and replace all the small 
vent pipes and then if that doesn’t work, a new seal on the fuel sender, and 
then........mmmm.
Anyway, thanks again for all the suggestions.

Regards

Keith

‘87 WR (with another problem now but I’ll start a new thread for that!)



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