[Shotimes] Fuel Tank concern

Steve Weinrich stevwein@swbell.net
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:48:06 -0500


It's considered normal.

Consult your owner's manual or the printing on the OEM gas cap.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Malachuk" <bmalach1@nycap.rr.com>
To: "SHOtimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:27 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] Fuel Tank concern


> It's been hot here and I stopped to put gas in my car yesterday and when I
> opened the tank, I had some serious pressur built up. Like enough so that
I
> could hear the metal of the tank popping as the pressure was released. Is
this
> "normal" or might something be wrong? I thought any excess pressue is
supposed
> to dump to the charcoal canister or something like that.
>
> I don't really feel like haivng the gastank splitting cause of some
pressure
> buildup.
>
> Bruce
> 94 Opal Frost MTX
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