Re: Locking fuel door update (WAS Re: Snippage and HTML)

["John Hopkins" <vergeo@email.msn.com>]

Hey khan I have a 98 jettaGLX and when I pull back the carpet on the right
side of the car all I see is the hole for the locking pin.  I am looking to
give my car a locking gas cap.
Please help me get started!!!!
98 Porcelain GLX
Q-Chip
ABD UF stressbar
Advanced Air Intake
Ram Air Intakes(mod for fogs)
Scroth racing harnesses
website with mad pics   www.angelfire.com/ny/vwgli/page3.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Khan M. Klatt <kmk@pacificrim.net>
To: jettaglx@igtc.com <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 4:54 PM
Subject: Locking fuel door update (WAS Re: Snippage and HTML)


>At 1:04 AM -0400 9/5/98, Tom and Teecy Matthews wrote:
>
>>Of course, I'm still annoyed with people who don't include text links on
>>pages...I still use VAX/VMS and Unix terminals fairly regularly. Long
>>live Lynx!  :)
>
>$ ^ynx^inux
>
>Anyone who knows the C shell will get this.
>
>
>As for Jetta-related content, I did another locking fuel door install on a
>Wolfsburg Jetta last night, and have a couple of suggestions regarding the
>installation.
>
>1. At my web page (which is due for an update soon) I stated you might have
>to use a lighter to make the vacuum tubing a little more pliable. Another
>alternative that works very well is to take a sottering iron, and putting
>the hot heating element down the tube to warm it up and make it more
>pliable. Works a lot better.
>
>2. Wolfsburg jettas, while they still have the locking fuel door mechanism
>as part of the body, don't have the vacuum tubing that runs down near the
>rear right hand side of the car. Instead, we had do the following:
>
>1. Cut the tubing that *does* run on the rear left hand side of the car,
>and splice the T-connector between the cut. Then, run a 6' piece of vacuum
>tubing from the T-connector, across the width of the car, under the rear
>shelf of the trunk.
>
>Worked like a charm. I've got a GTI-VR6 and a Wolfsberg Golf to do very
>soon, and hope to have lots of pictures.
>
>-Khan
>
>--
>Khan Klatt
>1997 VW Jetta GLX, Emerald Green
> --> Biber Beige Leather --> All-weather Package
> --> Bilstein HD Shocks & Struts --> Neuspeed SofSport Springs
> --> Mintex Redbox Brake Pads --> K&N Air Filter
> --> Clarion CD Changer (Trunk-mounted) --> Locking Gas Door
> --> Velcro-mounted CD Storage in Trunk --> AirCondition Mod
>