aggri1 wrote:<snip>
Now the fuel pump leaks a little oil, one fuel line (going up to engine) interferes with a piece of curved tinware, preventing it from sitting correctly, and she still has a dying problem (though it is less severe!).
The curved tinware is the bit that takes heat from the head to your carbs. I recently fitted one and had the same problem with the fuel line but it doesn't seem to have caused any probs.
What's worse, is that the silly fuel pump has a weird not-quite-allen-key bolt thing instead of a good old hex-head or allen key bolt. Why?
Grrr!:cussing
I've got a spare pump from another (1800) motor, I'd put it on if I had the right tool. Any ideas? (I got this pump off the other motor by hammering an allen-key into the not-quite-allen-key bolt to get it out, but that probably isn't too good an idea when I need to fit it back in place hey!)
Bla bla bla, sorry to bore you all! Thanks for the ideas folks.
This had me intrigued as I had started to take my fuel pump off to find that oil pours out! I don't have any weird allen key tools so I did a search on
www.type2.com and found the following:
"Dear Listees
The tool for the later 12-pointed spline, CV joint
socket screws, is an 8mm XZN socket-screw tool.
This is the same tool, needed to remove the mechanical
fuel pump of 1972~79 VW 17/18/2000 Type 2s, with twin
solex carburettors, and adjust the alternator drive
belt tension.
If anyone is interested, I have several of these
spare, as a half-inch drive socket wrench fitting.
Off-hand, I cannot remember what size Allen key fits
the earlier, hexagon-socket, socket screws, as fitted
to my 1973 VW type 2, CV joints.
Regards.
Nigel A. Skeet
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:24:39 -0600
To: type2_at_type2_dot_com
From: myangelmorgan_at_juno_dot_com
Subject: Re: [T2] CV joint tool type and size
Message-ID:
<20021220.164428.-596625.0.myangelmorgan_at_juno_dot_com>
mine (also 70 bus) was an allen wrench (sorry, i dont
know what size)
but
i was sold the star shaped bit by a VW supplier to
install the new
bolts
that came with the new boot kit. i still dont know why
the old bolts
werent stars. i figured that was why he sold me the
bit. i was about to
take it back when i realized the new bolts needed it.
whew!
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:01:16 +0000 "Mike Sims"
<bhikku44_at_hotmail_dot_com>
writes:
... Can someone tell me the type and size tool I need
for those
funny-shaped bolt heads?
> --mike
> 70 bus
> eugene,or
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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:50:56 -0800 (PST)
To: Type2 <type2_at_type2_dot_com>
From: Richard Atwell <ratwell_at_mac_dot_com>
Subject: Re: [T2] CV joint tool type and size
Message-ID:
<2170699.1040428256833.JavaMail.ratwell_at_mac_dot_com>
On Friday, Dec 20, 2002, at 01:24PM,
<myangelmorgan_at_juno_dot_com> wrote:
>mine (also 70 bus) was an allen wrench (sorry, i dont
know what size)
but
>i was sold the star shaped bit by a VW supplier to
install the new
bolts
>that came with the new boot kit. i still dont know
why the old bolts
>werent stars. i figured that was why he sold me the
bit. i was about
to
>take it back when i realized the new bolts needed it.
whew!
My experience also except I originally cancelled my
tool order then the
new boots came and I discovered that only the original
boots had hex
head bolts.
I posted this back in Nov. regarding the tool needed
for the other type
of screw used:
It's a triple square or sometimes called a serrated
wrench. Get the
right
tool in case this happens again in the future.
Visit your VWFLAPS. They either have BugPack Tool
#7057 or EMPI #5796.
http://homepage.mac.com/ratwell/.Pictures/Tools/10-CVTool.jpg
...or try Pepboys for K-D which for the same price as
the socket you'll
get
4 bits (6-8-10-12mm I think) which fit into a 3/8"
socket...
http://www.mytoolstore_dot_com/kd/2302.gif
Whatever tool you purchase, be sure to clean all dirt
and grime from
the bolts otherwise the heads will likely strip trying
to remove them."
[Edited on 30-9-2004 by mnsKmobi]
