I have a stock 86 and it happens too, maybe the design of the fill pipe?

Dave
86 Vanagon GL

Gary Shea wrote:

> Joe -- I have an '86 tank in my '81 Westy.  It went in with absolutely
> no glitches, everything bolts into place perfectly.  You have to replace
> your fill pipe with the one from the later model, it has the same screw
> holes, etc.
>
> My only problem, which I cannot begin to figure out, is that now I
> tend to get a lot of overflows while filling the tank.  Where as the
> old tank seemed to work well with gas pumps, and trigger their shutoffs
> early enough, this one usually runs some gas down the side of the van.
> A bit annoying.  On the plus side, the tank is bigger!  I put 14.25
> gallons in the other day.
>
> I used the '86 sender, it works fine with the '81 gauge, I now have
> about twice as much gas left in the red as I used to.  In fact I can
> go to below the red, whereas I've been known to run out of gas while
> still firmly in the red with the '81 tank.
>
> Hope that's enough detail for you.  Be sure to replace all the hoses
> while you're down there, mine were all rotten.
>
>         Gary
>
> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Joe Hunt wrote:
> > Heres my problem..............
> >
> > I have an 81 Vanagon with a leaking gas tank.......... so I go to my local
> > library and I check out the interchange autoparts book and it says thet only
> > 1980-81 gas tanks are interchangables?
> >
> > So my question has any one else with a leaking tank replaced it with one off a
> > 1983,85,85 etc. vanagon with success? my fear is finding a good servicable
> > 80-81 tank will be rather difficult! Not to mention all the junk yards in my
> > area trash the gas tanks!!!
> >
> > Any body no where i can finda reasonable priced servicable tank
> >
> > Leaking in NE(only when full)
> >
> > joe hunt
> > 81 vanagon
> >
>
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