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From: sammie smith
Sent: May 17, 2008 10:29 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] gas cap
I got the
Empi over sized gas tank installed in the Baja. Has one problem which has to be solved. If you have never seen one of these tanks, it is made oversize by simply making it taller. When it is made taller the filler neck winds up being only about an inch and a half long. Filler neck, for some dumb reason, is made to accept gas cap for splittie Type II. That would be ok except with a full tank the gas is only about 1 1/2 inches from the cap and the splittie Type II gas cap is a vented cap. Result, gas sloshes out the cap like crazy. Solution; I need a gas cap for this thing with the splittie type II fitting that is NOT vented.
The correct solution would have been for them to put on a standard 61-67 Type I filler neck, which they didn't do. These caps are not vented. So now what do I do? I think I can fill the vent holes in the Type II cap with JB weld or something similar, but an
easier solution would be to find a non-vented cap with the same fitting. How about a Bay cap? Are they vented?
For the uninitiated; VW did away with the vented cap and installed a vent tube in the Type I in I think 61. Reason was to get the gas fumes out of the trunk and prevent them from getting into the car. Type II does not have this problem and the splittie tanks have no vent tube and the cap is vented. There must be a vent somewhere, otherwise the fuel pump will create a vacuum in the tank and either quit working or collapse the gas tank.
Moday I am calling Empi since it is their tank; but in the meantime, anyone got any ideas?
