talk about fuel panic...

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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 14, 2005

• #1

filled the landy up and noticed petrol leaking out!

turned out to be the cork gasket at the top of the tank where the pipe goes
in - smeared some red hermetite type stuff on it and refitted, it might be
OK now. Will need to keep an eye on it.
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Tom Woods

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• Sep 14, 2005

• #2

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:04:01 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

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>filled the landy up and noticed petrol leaking out!
>
>turned out to be the cork gasket at the top of the tank where the pipe goes
>in - smeared some red hermetite type stuff on it and refitted, it might be
>OK now. Will need to keep an eye on it.

Mine does that too (cept it spills diesel not petrol). I dont think
that the pumps at the garage cut off until the fuel gets to somewhere
in the filler pipe - by which time its past the level of the top of
the tank.

When i fill the landy all the way up I always make sure that i do it
when i'm a good distance from home so that the drive home gets the
level of the fuel down slightly!

 

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Alex

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• Sep 14, 2005

• #3

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:18:50 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:04:01 +0100, Austin Shackles
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>filled the landy up and noticed petrol leaking out!
>>
>>turned out to be the cork gasket at the top of the tank where the pipe goes
>>in - smeared some red hermetite type stuff on it and refitted, it might be
>>OK now. Will need to keep an eye on it.
>
>Mine does that too (cept it spills diesel not petrol). I dont think
>that the pumps at the garage cut off until the fuel gets to somewhere
>in the filler pipe - by which time its past the level of the top of
>the tank.
>
>When i fill the landy all the way up I always make sure that i do it
>when i'm a good distance from home so that the drive home gets the
>level of the fuel down slightly!

I used to lift the seat up on my series when i filled it up, so i
could see when the fuel started to leak from the sender gasket and
stop filling.

Alex

 

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Lee_D

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• Sep 14, 2005

• #4

"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I used to lift the seat up on my series when i filled it up, so i
> could see when the fuel started to leak from the sender gasket and
> stop filling.
>
> Alex

That reminds me.. Percy still has a full tank and he's not going anywhere
until he gets a re-chassis... His last trip out was to the Petrol station
near on 12 months ago :0(

Lee D

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Sep 15, 2005

• #5

On or around Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:10:02 +0100, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> I used to lift the seat up on my series when i filled it up, so i
>> could see when the fuel started to leak from the sender gasket and
>> stop filling.
>>
>> Alex
>
>That reminds me.. Percy still has a full tank and he's not going anywhere
>until he gets a re-chassis... His last trip out was to the Petrol station
>near on 12 months ago :0(

get yer syphoning pipe out, then
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.