- 1. gas tank cap seal (score: 1)
- Author: "Douglas Ormrod" <Douglas.Ormrod@neurological.org.nz>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:25:53 +1200
- Onto the gas tank this week. The cap for my gas tank has the misshapen remnants of what appeared to be a leather seal sandwiched between the spring-loaded plates inside the cap. I can't seem to see a
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- 2. Re: gas tank cap seal (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:32:58 -0400
- Just checked my tank cap. No evidence of any leather pieces there. The cap has a spring-mounted assembly that is two pie-pan-shaped discs riveted together. The inner, smaller one fits into the hole
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- 3. Re: gas tank cap seal (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:20:09 -0400
- Hi Andy, Great idea. I understand the principle of it. You wrote the drilled holes are at the cut end, which I assume is the bottom, immersed end. How full can you fill the tank? How does displaced a
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- 4. FW: gas tank cap seal (score: 1)
- Author: "drmoyce" <drmoyce@ent-oakland.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:46:38 -0700
- I drilled the holes about a half inch above the cut end. I routinely fill until the nozzle shuts off and don't top off. I don't know where the air goes, but the gas stays in the tank. A Hi Andy, Grea
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- 5. Re: gas tank cap seal (score: 1)
- Author: "Lawrie Alexander" <Lawrie@britcars.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:32:26 -0700
- What Andy described is a fix I have used for many years with great success on TCs, TDs and TFs. However, I believe Andy must have read the instructions upside down {VBG} - as Bob surmised, the holes
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