Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:54:29 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Gas leaking after filling to the top...84 2wd..
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If one jacks up the van ..
and looks in there at the top of the tank, one can often see the broken
cross-over plastic T's.
Front tires off helps.
It is even possible, but difificul, t to repair those with tank in place.
most opt for pulling the tank, doing 'the whole job right' ..
buy a reseal kit from Van Cafe etc.
if you have an 84 with the large metal filler neck ...
let's just say the later smaller plastic filler neck is about 4 times
easier to deal with , especially going back together.
Like if you replace the large filler neck tank..
buy one with for the smaller filler neck hole and then buy a used
plastic filler neck. It's so much easier to work on that way.
sdf
On 3/11/2013 12:03 PM, Mike Bucchino Sr wrote:
> This has been discussed at length long before now. IIRC, the small amount of volume gained made it hardly worth doing, and some vans have the heater duct traveling through this depression in the top of the tank. The leak when topping off is usually cracked plastic crossover tees or leaking grommets or sender o-ring. Just finished doing mine with a crossover pipe from Airhead parts. It's nice to finally be able to top off my tank again!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:52 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>
>> I have actually toyed with the idea of cutting a hole or holes in the
>> depression & then having a piece of similar sheet metal welded on to
>> cover the whole depressed area which would also produce more tank
>> capacity ~ maybe someday
>>
>> ORR ~ DeanB
>>
>>
>> On 11 Mar , 2013, at 12:36 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>>
>>> So, is there any good reason why some after market entrepreneur has
>>> not developed a tank without the depression down the middle that
>>> would not need the crossover system? Just wonderin'. mcneely
>>>
>>> ---- Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@SBCGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>>>> Good explanation here: http://www.gowesty.com/library_article.php?id=317
>>>>
>>>> Rich
>>>> San Diego
>>>>
>>>> --- On Mon, 3/11/13, Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
>>>> Subject: Gas leaking after filling to the top...84 2wd..
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Date: Monday, March 11, 2013, 10:51 AM
>>>>
>>>> I know this may be somewhere in the archives. I have never
>>>> found the
>>>> archives useable, so I am just List-asking straight out...
>>>>
>>>> My 84 has always had a slight gas odor after filling to the
>>>> top...and
>>>> not just from the usual 'spitting-up' that frequently seems to
>>>> happen when
>>>> you use the gas pump's auto shut-off feature... I've just been
>>>> 'living
>>>> with it' forever, thinking it was not so big a deal, but I recently
>>>> noticed, after filling up, there was actually a small pool of
>>>> gasoline
>>>> under my van, and more still dripping out....Dunno whether this has
>>>> been
>>>> going on all along and I just noticed, or maybe the leak/overflow
>>>> problem
>>>> is getting worse....but not that I've seen this, I want to take
>>>> care of the
>>>> problem...
>>>>
>>>> Can someone point me to the fix for this problem, which I assume
>>>> is
>>>> frequent with our older vans, rotting hoses, etc...Thanks
>>>> Don Hanson
>>> --
>>> David McNeely
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