Date:         Mon, 25 Mar 2002 09:54:17 -0400
Reply-To:     Malcolm Stebbins <Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA>
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From:         Malcolm Stebbins <Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA>
Subject:      Re: self-bleeding coolant?  Now:  Gas w/o filler
Comments: To: Robert Steven Fish <fish@salzburg.co.at>
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On 24 Mar 2002 at 18:58, Robert Steven Fish wrote:
> Hi,  I see your point...  It would be sort of comparable to starting a
> thread about "how do I fill the gas tank up WITHOUT sticking a gas
> nozzle into the gas tank filler hole".

Robert I bet that you  think you have asked a really outlandish
question.......

I'm the guy who took my van to Egypt a year (or so) ago, now you
see my van takes unleaded fuel so it has a smaller collar on the gas
cap filler tube than do cars that take leaded gas.  Egypt does NOT
use unleaded fuel, only leaded.  Usually that was not a problem as
the fuel nozzles fit.  But now on one trip out in the Egyptian desert,
the ONE gas station in that oasis had only the larger nozzle on the
pump so it would not fit in to the gas filler tube.

You guessed it "how do I fill the gas tank up WITHOUT sticking a
gas nozzle into the gas tank filler hole".

TRULY!  I had to figure this out.  We used a long funnel and filled
the tank that way.  Not too hard but your outlandish question was
asked.

So Robert, keep asking the outlandish questions, maybe somebody,
somewhere has BTDT.   Thanks for the chance to reminisce.
Smiling from ear to ear,  Malcolm


>  Hi,  I see your point...    It would be sort of comparable to
> starting a thread about "how do I fill the gas tank up WITHOUT sticking
> a gas nozzle into the gas tank filler hole". And then having people all
> considering how to splice a line onto the fuel line,, reversing
> polarity on te fuel pump, and filling it that way.  ;-)

>  I do respect your creativity, and do see now that you were
> approaching a very unique situation,> See ya on the list.  RSF