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Title: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: bswilson80 on May 23, 2013, 05:18:03 pm

I'm in California (not sure if it differs in other states), and the vapor catching apparatus on the fuel nozzle makes it very difficult to set into the perfectly vertical fuel inlet, how do you guys deal with this problem, if it is one for anyone else?

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: 74 C-10 Shorty on May 23, 2013, 07:15:44 pm

I usually just slide the thing back and hold it till I'm done pumping..

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: VileZambonie on May 23, 2013, 09:16:30 pm

Is your fuel tank vented?

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: bake74 on May 24, 2013, 01:03:06 pm

     There has been other threads on this, us in Ca. Have trouble with the fuel vapor spout on the gas pumps with these older trucks.
     I have to turn it sideways and out just a little bit, which means I can not run the pump at full speed, but it will fill the tank without spilling if you go slower.

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: 74 C-10 Shorty on May 24, 2013, 01:54:16 pm

They're a royal pain in any vehicle really.. ::)

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: 79gmc15 on May 24, 2013, 07:51:27 pm

Sometime upside down, sideways, whichever way gets it to work. Lol

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: 74 C-10 Shorty on May 24, 2013, 08:15:57 pm

Yep, that's about it, lol...

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: 81_Chevy on May 24, 2013, 09:04:01 pm

I have mine out halfway, and turned sideways and I rest it on the square door, so the top of the spout is facing the rear of the truck. works pretty good!

Title: Re: How do you fill your tank?
Post by: VileZambonie on May 25, 2013, 08:50:32 am

A lot of people have this problem and it's not rocket science. If the fuel tank isn't vented what's going to happen when you try to push fuel into the tank? It's going to spit back. The only alternative to venting is you then have is to put it in real slow manipulating the pump handle to allow the tank to vent when fueling.