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1. [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: Allen Coblentz <wac8019@erinet.com>; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:07:34 -0500; I asked this question a couple days ago during the discussion on vapor lock.....no answers so far. It was said that a non-vented gas cap could cause a vacuum capable of crushing the gas tank. My orig; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00808.html (8,153 bytes)
2. RE: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: "Kevin D. Pennell" <oletwuk@fastrus.com>; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:06:05 -0500; Since you have no replies yet, I'll go "w-a-y" out on a limb here, and give you info as "I" understand it to be... Don't mean it's correct, but I think so... Maybe... You need a "Vented" cap. I may; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00809.html (9,771 bytes)
3. RE: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: "Tibbers" <tibbers@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:20:12 -0800; I have not done any analysis which would support my opinion, but I gotta tell ya, it would be hard for me to imagine an oletruck fuel pump (and connecting hoses, etc.) that would pull vacuum on a fu; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00810.html (9,434 bytes)
4. RE: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: "Kevin D. Pennell" <oletwuk@fastrus.com>; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:54:36 -0500; Hi Allen, I have to agree with Gordon there, on crushing the tank. I "HAVE" run into serious trouble with vacuum on under 20 degree days. Due to the shrinkage of the fuel from the overnight cold, The; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00811.html (10,334 bytes)
5. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: Advdesign1@aol.com; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:28:08 EST; Trick question. Fuel systems were always vented till the government got involved about 1970, earlier in Cal. You can get Stant brand vented fuel caps at local parts stores. GM took away the vent whe; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00812.html (8,454 bytes)
6. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: Bruce Damen <little-castle-contracting@cadvision.com>; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:12:45 -0700; i dont think tank colapse is a problem i really think starvation of fuel to run is the point i was trying to point out.....and then ..........crushed tanks appeared Bruce 1949 chev 1/2 ton oletrucks; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00814.html (10,288 bytes)
7. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: ADvent@thuntek.net; Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:18:39 -0700; oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00822.html (8,653 bytes)
8. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: "WR Teto" <monadnoc@crystal-mtn.com>; Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:41:37 -0500; I wondered why my bedroom window was always open in the morning... Wally / 53 3100 bedroom it oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00825.html (8,586 bytes)
9. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: Wayne Osborne <wayne@chevytrucks.org>; Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:28:12 -0500; The tanks on a TF has a smaller tube that runs along with the filler tube, this tube is the vent and a vented cap is not need. As stout as these tanks are, I can stand on my removed one and can't cav; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00827.html (9,513 bytes)
10. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: ADvent@thuntek.net; Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:58:37 -0700; The reason it will callapse is the vacuum is pulling on the entire surface with the weakest portion going first. oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00833.html (9,876 bytes)
11. RE: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: MIKE RAHL <MRAHL@martinmartin.com>; Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 10:27:17 -0700; I have experienced tank collapse first hand. A few years ago I owned a 65 F**d Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe...I know, I know, but it was a very cool car. But anyway, it has a flimsy non-baffled tank, an; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00835.html (8,972 bytes)
12. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: Advdesign1@aol.com; Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 07:07:19 EST; NOT TRUE! that small tube keeps you dry during refueling. It lets air out of the tank outboard of nozzle input so there are no fuel outsplashes. You still need a vented cap. Bob ADler oletrucks is d; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00851.html (8,371 bytes)
13. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: Rawlin Blake <blake@nevada.edu>; Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:59:53 -0800 (PST); If you have a non-vented cap, AND your truck does not starve for gas, you have a serious problem. The most likely problem is that the two rubber hoses going from the tank to the filler neck are so ba; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00854.html (9,977 bytes)
14. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: Bruce Damen <little-castle-contracting@cadvision.com>; Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:29:43 -0700; thats what i thought it was for ....but i do not have the knowledge that bob has on these subjects,,,,but i sure am glad when im on the right track....and on the tank collapse thing again....would no; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00859.html (8,857 bytes)
15. Re: [oletrucks] non-vented gas cap/tank (score: 1): Author: "ROGER GLEASON" <rogerg@maverick.facil.uconn.edu>; Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:40:02 -500; Its easy to see that a tank of our size could collapse when you figure it out. If the fuel pump puts a vacuum in the tank the surrounding atmospheric pressure of 14 psi would crush the tank in millis; /html/oletrucks/2000-02/msg00878.html (8,987 bytes)

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