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burning a lot of gas in my 8v



Nope never happended yet, maybe your torquing yout 
bolts too tight and "twisting the cap" ??
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ATS - Patrick Bureau
1985 8v Euro GTX 3A/JH Project
(show car)
1985 8v Euro GT Project (Daily Drive)
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> 
> 
> >Or..trashed metal washers.
> 
> >John
> 
> You mean the little brass ones? no, it doesn't leak there, and I always
> replace them at the same time. They seem to leak from the joint that
> attaches the end cap on the outlet side to the body of the filter. It looks
> like it's crimped on or something.  Anyways it always leaks on the bottom of
> that ring.  I have a 1.7L with the small style filter. Actually, it happened
> on my '84 with the large style filter too. That makes 3 leaky bosch filters.
> hmmm,  Has this not happened to anyone else?
> 
> Vince
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> 
> 
> At 06:03 PM 9/5/2002 -0700, Kevin Collins wrote:
> >Vince Royer wrote:
> >
> > > I've had 2 leaky bosch fuel filters in a row.
> >
> >Hmm.. what are the odds of that??
> >
> >Could be counterfeit parts!!
> >
> >--
> >Kevin Collins
> >Huntington Beach, CA
> >'86.5 16V 2.0
> >'02 GTI 337
> >
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