[VWC] Re: Vacuum hose question...

[fahrvegnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

> 
> From: Gordon Forbess <gforbess@attglobal.net>
> Date: 2005/04/03 Sun PM 08:42:46 EDT
> To: "John C. Worden" <johncworden@verizon.net>
> CC: vwc@vintagewatercooleds.com,  scirocco-L <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: [VWC] Re: Vacuum hose question...
> 
> On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:39:22 -0400, "John C. Worden"
> <johncworden@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> >Somebody has been selling this stuff on Ebay for a while, and I keep 
> >thinking I should
> >check to see if anyone knows what size our cars take so I can pick some 
> >up.  This is
> >more for the older cars, especially MkI's that used the short lengths of 
> >cloth covered
> >rubber line at the ends of all the vacuum lines.  Anyone know the inside or 
> >outside
> >diameter of this stuff?  If not, how about the diameter of those plastic 
> >vacuum lines?
> >And before someone suggests a better thing to use, this is for the '78 
> >restoration, by
> >which, I mean a true restoration-as the car would have come off the 
> >assembly line.
> 
> I've had good luck finding bulk cloth covered line and other vacuum
> system bits at aircooled parts places.  IIRC it comes in like 3, 5,
> and 7mm ID, at least.  
> 
> Gordon
> 
> 75 Mk I/Drake 1.9
> http://pws.prserv.net/gforbess/scirocco/scirocco.htm

  The most common vacuum part number is the '3mm', is N-020-353-5.  It is actually 3.5mm, who knew?  :-)

David

'83 GTI, Daily Driver...
'87 16V, parts car
'82 pickup, 2.0 16V, collecting dust...