Hi Nick and all,
When I had my 55 Plymouth and removed the tank, the filler neck did not
come out. I always had a problem of filling it as it would burp up gas up
thru the vent tube, go round the filler neck and try to jump on my pants.
One of the fella's on the List told me to put a paper towel around the
nozzle and put it in the filler neck too keep the burp contained. It worked
just fine. I think you should remove the rubber hoses and plug the tank
holes to prevent getting anything in their and plug the filler tube and fill
up colored water or some fluid and see where it is coming from before
cutting. When replacing the vent hose, use NAPA # 9807 which is a molded
hose that has a 90 degree bend rather than the straight one that came on the
car and just bent ot the 90 degree. Also if any one is replacing the
heater bypass hose on the firewall use the NAPA # 10700 hose which is a 180
degree molded hose which is a little longer, but just shorten it and it is
exact.
Gosh!! I went south for a few days and all our snow left us. But if John
has anything to do with it it will return--thanks John!!!
Jack in NO SNOW Shinglehouse, Pa
----- Original Message -----
From: Dirt Rider <drt-rdr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] Filler neck
> I'm working on my 56 Savoy. I think the gas filler neck has a hole in it
> somewhere. When I fill the tank up, it leaks form up in that area. I can't
> really get a good look at it as it's usually leaking at the gas station
and
> I have a hard time sticking my head up under the car whil gas is coming
out.
> Anyway, I was under the car as was ready to take it out when I started
> looking at it and It looks like it was maybe put in before the body was
> mounted to the frame. I haven't disconnected it yet, but it looks like
there
> is no way to wrestle it out.
> Can anyone confirm this ?
> If it's true, it kind of sucks, never being able to fill the tank.
>
> Any insights advice or reccomendations would be greatly appreciated. If it
> can't come out whole, I'm contemplating cutting it and then putting it
back
> together and clamp a rubber hose over where I cut it. I'd probably have ot
> make an extra support for it also
>
> thanks,
> Nick
>
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