Hi Charles,
I did it on my '84 without TOO much grief with everything in place.  I did
remove the tires for easier access.  You basically have to look at the
position of everything and then reach in and feel your way at it.  I did
lubricate the grommets and pipe to ease it in a bit.  One thing to be
careful with is not to push the grommets through the holes into the tank.
They didn't seem to want to do this on me, but it might be prudent to get an
extra when at purchasing them (if you need grommets) just in case.  My
failure was that one of the small overflow lines broke free from the "tee"
and that caused the original leak.  My grommets were fine.
Patients, Grasshopper, will almost always overcome force :-)
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles McGehee" <chasm@ELLTEL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:02 AM
Subject: replacing gas tank crossover tubes

> Listees,
>
> Sometime this month Vanagonite told of replacing the gas tank crossover
> tubes without dropping the tank.  I can't find it in the message archives,
> however.   Can' t remember its subject line and no key words seem to work.
>
> Does anyone remember this message and can you point me to it?
>
> Charles
> '85 Westy
>