On 10/26/09, Edward Duntz <eduntz@hotmail.com> wrote: ........ > What surprises me is that I > didn't think that any gas should be getting up there in the first place.
Me too.
> This means that the gas is not only filled in the tank, but over-filled so > much that it is going up into the expansion tanks in the wheel well, right? >
Not sure if expansion tanks end up with fuel in them when at gas station and filler pipe filled to top, but maybe later on if conditions caused fuel to expand enough. (hot day, altitude maybe too?) My understanding is that the expansion tanks are there (in part maybe?) for that reason. The top of the filler pipe is higher than the tank so I"m thinking that at least the fuel expansion tank hoses would fill with fuel when filler pipe filled to/near top. Neil.
-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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