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Re: [oletrucks] TF gas tanke venting

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Subject: Re: [oletrucks] TF gas tanke venting
From: Wayne Osborne <wayne@chevytrucks.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:31:39 -0500
Well there I go again, making an assumption......Oops.....I'll add this to
the large, and still growing, list of things I have learned one this list..
Maybe my old gas cap fit so loose that I thought it had room to vent,
sure felt like it.....

Blushfully---Wayne


At 07:58 AM 2/26/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Wayne wrote:  "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.  "
>
>Wayne, I respectfully disagree...this small tube is a vent, but it does
>not vent anywhere!  It goes to the top of the filler neck, and allows
>air to escape while the tank is being filled, to prevent "burping" gas
>out the filler neck while fueling.  Take the gas cap off, and take a
>look in the hole..you'll see what I mean.  You DO need a vented cap on
>any pre-emissions (before about 1970?) Chevy truck!
>
>Jim
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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