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Thanks to several suggestions from this list, I finally got the backward
fuel cap removed this evening. This little miscue ate nearly 2 hours of
time. With the cap loose, which aligned the small tang with the large slot I
used vice grips and tilted the cap up in the rear as far as I could. I then
used a sturdy but slim screw driver and forced it under the small tang and
pried that up on top of the filler neck. A slight counterclockwise turn with
the vice grips freed it so that it would rotate and could be removed. Both
tangs ended up deformed, but I was able to reform them for a tight fit. I
believe that if I had not had new gaskets this chore would have been easier,
but not as easy as keeping the caps out of the hands of line personnel in
the future.
Andy Anderson '46 415-D N93609


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