jeremyma

As I said before, it is not a good design. You have a plastic tank in the rear trunk, that needs to connect to a metal tube in the engine compartment, via a 3" rubber "heater" hose that has a spring band clamp on each end of the rubber hose. So where do you put the hose clamps when it is time to replace the tank - in places where it is a pain in the rear to get to them. When I did this I was frustrated enough that I was just going to cut the rubber hose with a knife - then probably wait 4 months for a new one from Germany. I did not think of cutting off the tank plastic nipple.

But then, I guess when Porsche designed the car they did not think the generations of plastic tanks would be failing for 10 years and need to be replaced.

For others, this is where the other end of the 3" rubber hose connects to the metal tube in the engine compartment. This is the hose that the instructions say to disconnect from under the car, but I gave up trying to do it from under the car. The picture is taken from the top after the engine lid was removed.

Red X is the rubber hose. Green X is the metal tube. Yellow arrow is the new worm drive clamp that replaced the original spring band pesky clamp.

Tools Pants, very nice job on the detail picture.. I am trying to replace this my self.

can you tell me where from the top this picture was taken. Its small space, There seem to be two place where this tube is. Did you have to take the medal (cover the soft top down) top off. I tried to reach my hand down there no luck. . if you can take a bigger picture of overall area would be greatly appreciated...

THANKS