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Technical => Electrics, Audio and Security => Topic started by: able on February 15, 2009, 01:45:30 AM

Title: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: able on February 15, 2009, 01:45:30 AM: i have a non locking fuel cap and i was wondering if other members replaced them?

i was hoping their is a simple solution from the wreckers for this....
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: ben on February 15, 2009, 12:04:49 PM: morgan has a locking one and he wants a non locking one.. sounds like a deal to me.. ill pm you.

ben
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: danvanman on February 15, 2009, 07:50:41 PM: It was a long time ago, but I'm sure I cut the end off an old holden tank and welded it onto the beddy tank. Of coarse I had both tanks out and full of water. Wa la, standed holden locking cap!
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: able on February 15, 2009, 09:51:58 PM: that sounds the go! thanks danvanman

p.s ben.. mine original is not much chop....
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: ben on February 16, 2009, 09:06:58 AM: also i saw this morning as i was strolling in my yard one of my vans has a lockable fuel cap on it.. id say its an original one. so you could use that one also if you wanted.. b ut ill pm you morgans no. be better for both of you.

cheers
ben
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: Joel Oswald on February 25, 2009, 10:09:43 AM: I just tracked down a brand new petrol cap from eBay in the UK.... Original item. So there out there if you search around....
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: ben on February 25, 2009, 11:19:37 AM: nice one joel..

i think its funny how stuff goes cheap on ebay uk cause hardly anyone into beddies over in uk.. when were half way round the world and love em!! scrounging for bits..

ben
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: Joel Oswald on February 25, 2009, 11:35:31 AM: Yeah I look on there every week... There's always Brand new items that you'd never find over this side of the world. I also picked up some more black CF2 Wing Mirrors, like the ones I have on my van now, but these are absolute mint & brand new.
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: ben on February 25, 2009, 12:08:39 PM: yeh i got a couple of sets of new tie rod ends for my van for a cheap price.. was stoked..
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Post by: BusyKiwi on February 25, 2009, 06:24:23 PM: you all need to share ebay names so we don't out bid ourselves
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: Joel Oswald on February 25, 2009, 07:51:05 PM: True story! But I think on eBay you can see the names like TradeMe, just says bidder1, bidder2 etc! Mines easy to realise though.
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: hammers_spanners on February 25, 2009, 07:58:51 PM: What cap to use? If you have a charcoal canister then you need a non vented cap as the venting is done thru the canister. No canister fitted then you need a vented cap.

From memory canisters were fitted from around 76-77 in Aus.
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: able on February 25, 2009, 08:52:38 PM: charcoal canister? that would be a small round drum looking thing with four leads going into it that is positioned below the brake booster and water overflow from the radiator?

if so i have one..... my beddy is reportedly a '78. (anything wrong with the 78? )

at the moment it has some sort of custom tank that at a rough guess fits 80 L's... hangs down real low and has a v shaped bottom.

when i put petrol in it (it ran out just as i was about to put it up the drive) it leaked petrol all around my feet in a steady stream.. on the inside i have a pipe that is just pushed into the floor and then bolted into position and it also has a rubber hose (ordinary house hose) coming out of the floor with it that has a stick jammed in it....

anyway so i need a none vented cap???? how do these type breath?
Title: Re: what fuel cap did you use?
Post by: hammers_spanners on February 26, 2009, 09:54:31 AM: Able

Yes that's the canister, it's there to "soak" up the fuel vapor from the fuel tank as the fuel evaporates. One of the hose goes from the canister to the carby to draw in the "soaked up" vapor. It's all part of the emission control system.

I'd have the tank checked out. Hoses with sticks jammed in isn't right!