The plastic piece is keyed and there are notches inside the perimeter of
the sheet metal hole. After you remove the 3 screws the outside piece
rotates very slightly till the keys line up with the notches and then it
comes right out. Mucho WD40 helps. Spry it inside the wheel well too.
Tap the plastic to free it up a little.

Mark

Jim Felder wrote:
> Mount may be a bad word for this thing, but it's all I can think of to call
> it. I am trying to paint the right side of may van. Don't need to drop the
> tank, but I need to remove the plastic molded black thing that surrounds
> the inlet and gaskets and such, what you see around the 2WD gas cap when
> you are looking at it.
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