gas refill tank top plastic fell into gas tank

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09-07-2015, 05:12 PM

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rmerchant3

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Don't worry with it. I dropped an 8mm filler neck nut in my tank while installing the suspension. I am bat crazy OCD and "had" to get it out. Royal PITA considering I had to remove the fuel pump and reach in there to retrieve it. Looking back there is no way it would have ever harmed anything. I knew that going into it, but my OCD wouldn't let me leave it in there. There are small baffles in the tank where the sock sits, so no way it would have even made it to the pump. If it somehow sloshed over the baffles, the sock will prevent it getting sucked up.

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09-08-2015, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by slalom44

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Originally Posted by tehsu

So, the top piece of the 1 gallon gas tanks that we use to refill, the top part came off the portion that gets pushed down to start the flow of gas into the tank.

Those new filler tubes are a royal pain. The morons that mandated those things to meet government regs should be fired for incompetence. Because they are so difficult to use, they cause more fuel to be spilled than they were designed to prevent.

You should file a complaint with the EPA and demand that they pay to get that piece out of your tank. It's their regs that caused that to happen in the first place.

It is extremely difficult to put gas in your tank with those tubes and almost impossible to fill a lawn mower tank without spilling gas all over the place. If my wife or anyone like her had to use one in an emergency she would be screwed.

LOL, totally agree. I spill gas all over the motor of my mower every time I fill it up.