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Subject:Re: Overflow while filling the gas tank
From:rachel martin
Date:Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:35:40 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 15 Feb 1995, Jerry Dunham wrote:

> 
> Thanks for the advice.  I've been fighting this one ever since I got the
> Vanagon (never had it with my three bread loaves).  Usually, I listen for
> the sound of the thing getting near full and try to back off so that I
> can catch it just before it acts silly, but some locations are near such
> noisy roads (and my aged hearing isn't what it used to be ... and never
> was) that I get a fountain anyway.  I'll try turning the nozzle sideways
> to see how that works.  Does it matter which way you turn it, left or
> right?
> 
Hello, Jerry--
I turn the nozzle so that the hose end aims toward the rear of the 
Vanagon. But it might not make any difference if it is turned the other 
way. I think the "splash sensor" becomes more sensitive when the nozzle 
is in at a different angle. Experiment!
Tom Brouillette
(in Care Of): rmart@unm.edu