Make sure you have the new double baffled, double vented cap and do not take it off until pressure is gone . This is the whole deal IH got caught up in law suits with. People getting burned or sprayed with gasoline opening a pressueized tank. The 656 was the worst offender and they were tracked religiously for some time. One law suit I know of went through two states to the previous owner, and dealer who traded it in.
When I was at service training at Hickory Hill in about 1969, they had a 656 gas on a dyno. They hooked a tube to the cap of that fuel tank and ran it out side as the gas would literally boil on that tractor. IH added a large chunk of figerglass insulation to later models to reduce the heat to tank. The 560 was baffled much better and it never bothered as much on the 706 either but it was always of some concern. Cost IH a ton of money and reputation.
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