Replacing the fuel vapour rubber pipe

Hi, is it possible to replace the small rubber pipe joint ( part of the fuel vapour system) located in the engine bay under the spare wheel .
I can smell petrol in the engine bay LHS and through the air vent. The rubber pipe is perished, and I get a petrol smell on my fingers when touch this joint.
obviously difficult to get to.
Has anyone managed to replace this with the engine in etc ... any tricks of the trade would be appreciated .

Cheers

 

Yes , just reach around the wheel well

 

^this

 

Finding it difficult to believe someone wrote "reach around" and all you wrote was "^this"...

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The one by the spare wheel well is easier to get to if you take out the tail light on that side.

 

This ^

So much easier when you can see what you're fiddling with.

 

Best be a inspecting Every rubber piece that touches gas . I am overly paranoid about gas lines. And of all the vehicles I’ve owned. The Volkswagen t2 is the scariest.

 

I used a reasonably stiff bit of 5.5mm fuel hose, and a little bit of washing up liquid as lubricant, reaching around as necessary.

After a while you get used to doing stuff by touch.

This is a really easy job compared with dropping the 17mm nut for the starter motor bolt on the engine for the fifth time.

 

Davidoft and Snotty (and I) say reach around because ... it's easy and while removing the light will make it even easier it quadruples+++ the amount of work. By the time you've figured your m5 socket isn't deep enough to reach the nuts with extension plugged in fully we'd be done. Try your left hand.

 

Ah, true!
Forgot about that. Made me think about putting rivnuts in those bolt retaining ears to make just such an operation less of a pain.


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Rivnuts would be no use as they are studs in the rear lights

 

That is very true Thanks.
I have to put a rivnut somewhere soon though...it’s been too long


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Use an old fashioned box spanner for the light unit nuts.

 

A box spanner yes, but who has an m5 box spanner? You I guess, but not me!

 

About a fiver for a complete set on ebay.

 

There you go
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/331623284582

 

Setup a Go fund me page for a set of these for Zedders.
Just say he left his old set in the sea. Should have about 2K in an hour or so.

 

The thing is...when you need them Ebay is delay and you find a way long before any ebay purchase could arrive. At that point the need has gone and I'd feel a bit dumb ordering spanners that I no longer had a use for. This must be true or I'd already have a set.

 

You could call the spanner set PIXIE!