Re: alfa-digest V8 #620

[Teruhiko_Higashi@domain.elided (Teruhiko Higashi)]

Hey Charlie,

I have found that by turning the pump handle so that it is by the black
triangular plastic trim over the gas filler pipe,  there is less
likelihood for it to cut off.


alfa@domain.elided writes:
>Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:50:53 EST
>From: Pottree@domain.elided
>Subject: fuel filling: GTV6
>
>OK, while you have all been idling away your time posting to the Digest,
>my 
>BW and I have been out running the back roads of Southern California, USA
>to 
>scope out the most enjoyable route for the driving tour for July's AROC 
>national convention.  we are trying HARD to come up with a scenic,
>enjoyable, 
>fun driving route that avoids ugliness, traffic, and other realities and
>lets 
>you just have a blast driving ... and of course we have been sacrificing
>our 
>time in this effort in the GTV6.
>
>THEREFORE and comes now the comment (attn.: lawyers on the Digest I have 
>previously offended: I have served my time and beg pardon with all due 
>contrition): when you come to Southern California and if you have a GTV6
>or a 
>75/Milano (in my own experience) you will find there are various type of
>gas 
>pumps intended to prevent excess gasoline vapors from escaping during a
>fill 
>up, all of them invented after these cars left the factory.  The result
>is 
>that it is sometimes quite difficult to fill the tank with fuel because
>the 
>vapor recovery system trips the tank full pressure switch, and the pump
>shuts 
>off -- and this may happen many times in a single fill up.  From personal 
>experience, I think it may also have something to do with the ambient air 
>temp and/or how long the car has been run before it rolls up to the pump,
>the 
>pressure inside the gas tank, etc.  This is both a warning for visitors
>to 
>the convention in So. Cal. who may not come from places where they care
>to 
>recover stray fumes at a fill up.
>
>Has anyone been able to find a workaround for this situation?  Sometimes, 
>it's not a problem, sometimes it get quite annoying ... and in the places 
>that use the "old-fashioned" nozzles, it is never a problem at all.
>
>Charlie
>LA, CA, USA

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