Dave, Two years ago I took my 80 Spitfire to Colorado for the VTR (from Kansas City). At one stop after I reached Colorado I had the same thing happen and of course my rear window was also zipped out. I thought they had a problem with the pump, but it seemed to be working ok for everyone else. So then I thought it was due to either the heat from the long run across Kansas into Colorado or the change in altitude.
Later I was filling the car at another gas station and noticed that I was going to have the same problem ( I happened to move the nozzle and heard a rush of air instead of gasoline). I looked at the nozzle and it had a shoulder on it that made a tight fit against the ring inside the filler. So I decided that what was going on was that it made a seal between the nozzle and the filler tube, the gasoline going in to the tank compressed the air up into the area that the later Spits have to let the gasoline expand (the later Spits extended the filler tube farther into the tank to create a expansion area due to emission regulations). Then when I pulled the nozzle out the air expanded enough to shoot gasoline out of the tank. I suspect that the ventilation tubes that go up to the carbon canister should have allowed the air to escape. So I probably have a problem with a clogged line or fuel separator. But so far I have just been careful when filling the tank. Roger Elliott Dave Willner wrote: >I took the Spit out for an hour or so today, ran great, great weather, great >time....I was topping off the tank on the way home and all of a sudden a >stream of overflowing gas shot into air? Literally went about 4' in the air >(of course the back window was zipped out ). This has never happened to me >before on any LBC? Was the pump was at fault or was there some sort of trick >here I need to pay more attention to in a Spit?. TIA > >Dave Willner > >80 Spitfire Carmine Red /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
