a half-dozen steamers (tony dixon, paul gamlin, tom king, cliff
luscher, ed timmerman, bob trabucco) had some fine runs at dr. dan
liebowitz' house yesterday. the batteries in my camera had died, so
no pictures.
i attempted to leverage the knowledge and wisdom of this group to
help me figure out what was the matter with my frank s' gas filler
valve.
this frank has been modified, bringing the gas tank into the left
saddle; i believe someone once marketed a kit to make this
modification, but i've combed all my records and can't confirm that.
initially we thought the problem was a bad o-ring and replaced it;
the leak continued. next we tried to replace it with a roundhouse
filler valve and then an accucraft filler valve; both had slightly
different threads than the tank itself.
then, after a little experimentation, it became clear that the
problem wasn't the o-ring, but the valve itself -- the gas was
leaking straight out the top of the nipple.
today i actually did what i should have done in the first place,
which was to visit the sulphur springs web site. i find that the
eatons sell a specific "aster gas tank filler value" (part FVG-A).
does anybody know whether this valve will fit the tank used in the
side-saddle retrofit? if it doesn't, does anybody have any ideas of
how to fix this problem?
thanks.
\dmc
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