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Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:16 pm

I understand that I should search for answers before posting a question. And I get why.

But I have a hard time finding some things that I know must have been talked about many times.

An example - I need to put a fuel tank into a '67 deluxe bus that I purchased in pieces. I see several posts about fuel tanks in general, but I would like to know how to connect the filler neck to the side of the bus (where the little "door" opens when you want to fill the tank). I can't find a post about that, although certainly someone has talked about it in the past.

Any ideas that would help narrow searches like that?

Thanks!

Tue Dec 28, 2010 9:58 pm

Sometimes it takes some reading of what comes back to find a suitable thread. It usually makes sense to add to an existing thread if there is something similar but if there really is nothing similar then go ahead and start a new thread.

I can't remember anyone asking that particular question before but you may be able to search on fuel neck or fuel tank neck.

Sometimes doing a "title only" search can help quite a bit to narrow the number of results down, although not in this case.

What you asked makes no sense to me though. All Buses up to '67 have a solid neck and nothing attaches by the fuel door. There is a seal there that the neck passes through that sort of holds it in place though. But that is really a response for the thread you might start. :)

I did a quick search on fuel neck and got a number of threads.

I think you might have a Bay Window tank since those have a detachable neck, in which case these 2 threads looked promising, either with the solution to your question or possible to add to once you read them:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=410677
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=167975

Note that the 2nd thread above was really a link right at the start of the first thread, I don't think it came up in the search, at least not at the top.

Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:13 pm

Thanks, Everett.

I guess it didn't occur to me that there wasn't an attachment. I'm glad you answered the specific question, although I just thought I wasn't good at creating the search criteria!

Great site, by the way! Is this your creation?

Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:35 pm

The short answer is yes.