Posted by Bob on September 07, 2011 at 07:52:07 from (64.255.159.192):
In Reply to: Gas Problems posted by Poor farmer 830 on September 06, 2011 at 19:38:18:
Typical modern cars have a plastic ball, more or less a ping-pong ball, that acts as a check valve in the filler tube at the tank that floats upward when the tank gets full and stops you from overfilling it.
I have heard of them swelling up from long-term gas exposure or that check system can otherwise jam or fail limiting how fast you can fill the tank. A little debris, piece of a rag, or towel, etc., could easily jam them, as well.
Wife's cousin runs a repair shop in town and was working on a TrailSmasher about that age when I stopped by a few months back, with the same problem, He dropped the tank, and looked at the fill check and filler tube, etc., couldn't see anything wrong, finally gave up and put it all back together and it works normally. Go figure?????
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