DeTomaso Mailing List: July 97, Message #7
     



From: tjpadula@netcom.com (Thomas Padula)

Subject: Gas nozzle kick-off

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 10:45:39 -0700



Hello, all.



It happened again this morning. I'm driving the Pantera to work today, because

my daily driver is off getting its A/C fixed, and I went to a gas station

on the way. Once again, I worked the gas pump nozzle bellows around the

various bits on the filler of my car (it's a '74, with the usual filler

on the finned sail panel). Once again, I had to hold the trigger by hand

and try to fill the tank vvvveeeerrrryyyy ssssllloooowwwlllyyy to try to

keep the nozzle from kicking off.



This time, I gave up at half a tank after the tank backsplashed twice and

had kicked off at least a dozen times. I'm not a concourse type, but 

I still don't like getting gas on my paint any more than anybody else.

This happens at any gas station, with any pump. I'm in California, so we

have various flavors of vapor-catching gas pumps. They all do this,

and I don't really know if this is a problem elsewhere - can't remember 

how it behaved out of state. 



So: since (a) this obviously isn't happening to everyone, and (b) I do have

some vague clue how to operate a gas pump, what's wrong with my car? I've

looked through the orange parts book for exploded diagrams of the gas tank 

and such, but I don't see anything on my car that looks like it could be a

vent (which could be plugged).



Is there supposed to be a tank vent of some kind? Wheere is it, what's it

look like, is this a common problem? Any other theories?



Of cousre, maybe my assumptions are off. Is this happening to everybody in

California, or do I just not know how to use a gas pump? (Gee, and I've been

practicing for fifteen years and a couple hundred thousand miles....)



-tom, verteran of many busted knuckles, not thrilled at being confounded

by a stinking _gas_pump_...



'74 euro GTS



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