Posted by Clint Dixon [172.68.90.25] on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 13:17:05 :
In Reply to: Gas Tank Slow To Fill posted by Jim in Litchfield Park [162.158.142.7] on Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 00:50:50 :
I have had the same problem with every Power-Wagon I have owned. Each one of them has had a fully functioning vent tube. The problem is three-fold:
1) The vent tubes on our old trucks are of a smaller diameter than those found on modern vehicles.
2) The horizontal run in the filler neck is not necessarily horizontal.
3) Modern pumps push a lot more fuel a lot faster than pumps that were manufactured when our trucks were new.
I always try to go with the lay of the land and find a pump island where the drive slopes away slightly and park with the filler neck "uphill". I also look for a pump nozzle which can be "feathered". A lot of modern pumps have hair trigger nozzles and tend to be either "full on" or "full off". A lot of that is due to poor maintenance but I find that Wayne pumps seem to be more forgiving than Gilbarco pumps.
Sometimes jambing the nozzle upside down into the filler neck and shooting the fuel in horizontally works. Sometimes not.
Junior
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