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Sun Oct 25, 2020 2:11 pm

The genuine Y that holds the decel hose, brake hose, and goes to plenum is getting 10 years old now. I have some others but they lack the part number and genuine VW Audi logo so they are probably reproductions. I've seen people selling the "genuine" NOS part but it too lacks the proper logo so my guess is somewhere in the chain of ownership someone substituted a repop with the old tag. Gee Bee makes a silicone one, and his parts are generally great so I am thinking that might be the best solution but don't have any experience with that specific part of his. Has anyone seen factory ones, or have experience with GeeBee's?

The one I have now:

Some options that I have found but none like the original that I bought in 2010.

https://www.busdepot.com/022133083d
https://www.buslab.com/product-p/022133083d.htm
https://airheadparts.com/vw-part/power-brake-valve-022-133-083-d/
https://www.heritagepartscentre.com/us/022133083d-y-piece-for-servo-assisted-brakes.html
https://www.bughaus.com/Y-Connector_-_022133083D.htm

GeeBee
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2293753

Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:21 pm

I use gee bees. I tried an aftermarket rubber one and it started breaking down after a few years.

For me it’s not worth the time to find an original vw stamped part when a better part is easily available.

Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:35 pm

The part Airhead shows with the struck-out V oval logo is the same as what most people sell now. I get them from Pacific and haven’t had any problems with half a dozen of them in the last few years.

Sun Oct 25, 2020 3:37 pm

Steve,
I have 2 of them

Sun Oct 25, 2020 5:29 pm

old DKP driver wrote: Steve,
I have 2 of them

is one for sale? PM me if so and I'll send over a paypal.

Wed May 14, 2025 10:28 am

Hey all, been out of the loop for a while.

Is geebee no longer making VW parts? His classified ad for this is down and his website doesnt seem to be active

I need one of these vacuum tees

Wed May 14, 2025 10:00 pm

rustbus wrote: Hey all, been out of the loop for a while.

Is geebee no longer making VW parts? His classified ad for this is down and his website doesnt seem to be active

I need one of these vacuum tees he only sells the kit last i heard. I don't think that tee was ever one he made.

That said, if you do get a hold of him, he has zero tolerance for wasting time answering questions. You tell him what you want, ask how much and where to send the money. Start asking more questions and he will probably hang up on you. He values time as money so if someone is going to spend 10 minutes asking questions, to him that is 10 minutes he can't work on something else. That is mostly why he stopped selling to the bay community. He also sees time spent shipping as unbillable time, so he waits until he has enough orders to justify the time spent shipping. It may take 3 weeks to get something because he is too busy to ship.

Thu May 15, 2025 12:18 am

GeeBee did make that T later on, as well as T1 sump gaskets, T4 carbureted intake gaskets, and a oil breather gasket.

From the time I talked to him, he was very much interested in telling me about the airplanes he flew and where, never seemed to want to answer my VW questions.

Robbie

Mon May 26, 2025 7:58 pm

airschooled wrote: GeeBee did make that T later on, as well as T1 sump gaskets, T4 carbureted intake gaskets, and a oil breather gasket.

From the time I talked to him, he was very much interested in telling me about the airplanes he flew and where, never seemed to want to answer my VW questions.

Robbie
Thanks Robbie. I spoke with him a couple times. He was really easy to deal with but I've known a lot of business people like him, and time is money so if the customer is easy to deal with they do business. If the customer asks too much, wants to chat, the business guy will run. He told me the biggest turn off for him for selling to the VW crowd is that people expected him to be like a retailer where UPS or FedEx come by daily. He said he usually has to make time to box things then drive to drop them off, and for one item it isn't worth his time so he liked to wait until he had four or five orders. People would say Ok but then start calling in like three days where are my parts. I told him it gets here when it gets here, I am busy too. So he always sold to me whatever I needed even if it was something he didn't list as individual. I liked the guy. His work was outstanding. But because he does a lot of stuff for aviation he has all that paperwork and testing etc., he has to meet and I think he got in trouble a couple times for selling things that were not FAA approved - although they were probably better than anything the FAA approved. A FAA inspector approved a spark plug repair on a Piper that killed a housemate of mine in the late 1980's. Really tragic situation. Plug popped out right after take off, started a fire and before they could get back around to the ground that was all she wrote. He was in the front seat and burned to death on the way down. The tail broke off on impact and the pilot's kid in the back seat survived to tell the whole story. Both Kevin and the pilot died. Anyway I am rambling, but the guy makes really good products if he is still selling them.