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Re: Europa-List: Re: tank size

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: tank size
From: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:10:58

Tim
should work fine but not as easy to fit a stub into the hose. Not sure 
how I'd do it
Graham

Tim Houlihan wrote:
> <houlihan@blueyonder.co.uk>
>
> Hi
> Would this solution work in the Classic original setup ? assuming you 
> run the vent pipe to the top of the filler pipe in the alloy  receptacle
>
> Tim Houlihan.
>
> Graham Singleton wrote:
>> Peter Jeffers wrote:
>>> I think many of us have seen this issue of fuel venting on warm to 
>>> hot days
>>> due to air/fuel vapour expansion.
>>> The cure (and it works fine) is to route the vent pipe from the 
>>> tank, to the
>>> filler neck instead of the roof vent tube.  Thus as fuel tries to vent
>>> overboard, as in the past, it now vents back into the tank.  Saves 
>>> the mess
>>> on the paintwork and also saves precious fuel!!!
>>> You will however still need to vent the tank, so a further 
>>> connection int



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