Steve Straus

Since I've owned my car it's only held about 8 gallons of gas. The vented cap failed or plugged along the line and the suction imploded the tank. It's sucked in on the top and bottom. The other problem with this is, other than the capacity issue, is with the bottom imploded the pipe from the sending unit sticks up at a different angle, so most of the gas (and about a gallon of water) in the tank never gets used. I'm driving it to Carlisle for the first time this year and want more gas, so for the sake of not running water through the new engine and actually having enough gas to make it somewhere on less than a full tank, I'm finally changing it.

Here are some pictures of the imploded tank, they don't do it justice, it's really worse than the pictures make it look. The new tank is in the background for comparison.

Double click on the pictures for better detail.






[Modified by Steve Straus, 2:12 AM 7/25/2003]

backtrail69

:crazy:

Kenzy

Wow that's pretty wild.

standup

Looks like it got squeezed between the thighs of a Mountain woman.......

427V8

Wow, that Sucks!

jerryp58

"The vented cap failed " ... uh-huh, sure, um, how big are the secondaries on that thing?

Good Luck with the change & have fun at Carlisle :yesnod:

WPEDirect

A mountain woman...? Hmmm... interesting.

:leaving:

Jughead

That's incredible Steve, never seen anything like that. :eek:

pzcg7l

:eek:

Brettmc

Dayum, are you using a jet fighter fuel pump?

Brett :thumbs:

flynhi

Nice edge seam on that BB hood........

Eddie 70

Thats what I was thinking.

mrvette

Seems to me anyway, just repressuring the tank to blow it back out again would work, assuming it's not a sea of rust anyway....

GENE

Alwyn678

that is what I was thinking :yesnod:

Garson

One of my Vette freinds put a new Holley fuel pump on his 65 and his old cap failed. The suction completely imploded the tank. The bottom was sucked up against the filler neck, would not hold two gallons. I told him to write to Holley and tell them thier pumps really suck.......

Garson

Steve Straus

Thanks for the comments folks. I guess the moral is, this can happen, and if you have a vented system, get a new cap periodically. It's cheaper and easier than pulling the tank.

As far as repressurizing the tank, it's actually creased in a couple of spots from the implosion. I wouldn't trust it afterwards. The new tank wasn't terrible as far as price goes. Also, I'm not using the Return line any more, so I got a tank without a nipple for a return line.

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Steve

luvmy73

Holy crap!!! :eek:

Van Steel

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