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Thu Mar 27, 2008 4:04 pm

Had to replace the fuel pipe on my 53 and despite my sane rational side saying run the tube along side the tunnel ,i decided to run it inside .

I found a few previous access holes which had been badly covered up so this was an opertunaty to tidy it all up.

Looking towards the front .Note clutch cable to the top right.

Here shows plastic pipe used to pull copper alloy pipe (doesnt go brittle like pure copper)through the frame head as i didnt want to cut a hole there.

New pipe was tie wrapped to the existing stuff to make it rigid .

Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:55 pm

Nice tunnel pics! 8)

Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:06 pm

is that copper alloy brake pipe too :shock: ( link to recent info on british copper line technology ) :

http://www.dimebank.com/BrakePlumbing.html

I saw some pics of some Germans redoing split frame tubes somewhere on here and they cut the whole bottom of the frame tunnel off, replaced ALL pipes at once, spot welded everything back up like factory, I was impressed, no extra holes, that would be some serious work

Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:38 am

billmetric wrote: is that copper alloy brake pipe too :shock: ( link to recent info on british copper line technology ) :

http://www.dimebank.com/BrakePlumbing.html

I saw some pics of some Germans redoing split frame tubes somewhere on here and they cut the whole bottom of the frame tunnel off, replaced ALL pipes at once, spot welded everything back up like factory, I was impressed, no extra holes, that would be some serious work

i have seen that report before but copper nickel brake lines have been used since the seventies in the UK .i think if it was a real problem it would have been taken off the market by now.

Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:26 pm

Here in German language how VW asked to make it. Pages 29...30.

From Page 31 to 32 is show how to made pipe an other way, fast and dirty.

http://www.vw-classic.net/repleitfaden_typ11_52_57/repleitfaden_52_57_kapitel_R.pdf

Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:34 pm

virtanen wrote: Here in German language how VW asked to make it. Pages 29...30.

From Page 31 to 32 is show how to made pipe an other way, fast and dirty.

http://www.vw-classic.net/repleitfaden_typ11_52_57/repleitfaden_52_57_kapitel_R.pdf

thats a great link.Unfortunatly the hole in the end of the framehead is small and has the handbrake rod in the way .it will be useful if i ever have to do it again though.thanks .

Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:56 pm

Sinbad wrote:

Man, That is like a colonoscopy of a VW. Cool picture

Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:11 pm

that's funny, i was thinking the same thing. sweet pics!

j

Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:01 pm

That is seriously the only part of a ACVW I've never seen before. Now I've seen everything... :lol:

Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:54 am

c.davis419 wrote: That is seriously the only part of a ACVW I've never seen before. Now I've seen everything... :lol:

LOL. I felt the same exact way when I saw that picture.