My second 1965 Dodge Dart.
Well, it is a long time since I posted anything here. Not going into details now about why, but it has not been anything to post. More or less.
Anyway, last weekend I had a very bad leak from my gas tank, in 110 degrees. It smelled gas, and my wife told me to move my car out in the street. I am glad nothing happened, because if it had caught fire I would have been without a car, and we would have been without a home too.
It was a big pond under the gas tank, and I did not see it until I had started and backed my car enough to see the pond under where the gas tank was.
The reason for the leak was a plugged vent tube under the car. I got good help from you guys in the fuel forum. I did not realize the thin tube in the trunk went out outside the gas tank. It looked to me, from inside that it went back inside the tank, and I thought this was to help with filling the gas. Anyway, I blew it up with compressed air, I took the hose off where it sits on the filler neck, and tightened it around my air gun, and just gave it full pressure and whatever plugged the tube came out with a loud bang.
Here is a picture of the gas cap, that is non vented, and supposed to be non vented. I have replaced the rubber gasket / seal. I used 1/16" nitrile rubber sheet for that. And I have a lot left of it. I was thinking about cutting some pieces of the roll and put up for sale on ebay if anyone was interested. But never got around to it.
I have also messed with this other problem I had last fall / winter, water coming into the car from the cowl. I have just a week ago or something like that sprayed EvapoRust gel inside the cowl, and then after a while flushed it out with fresh water, and it is now quite nice in there. Then came all this wildfire crap and stopped me from continuing with that project.
During the winter I also ended up buying a small bench metal lathe in pieces, so I have been messing with that too. But, hopefully I will get something into the cowl to stop it from rusting more, and then I can go on with the stuff inside the car, heater box and so forth.
Bill
Well, it is a long time since I posted anything here. Not going into details now about why, but it has not been anything to post. More or less.
Anyway, last weekend I had a very bad leak from my gas tank, in 110 degrees. It smelled gas, and my wife told me to move my car out in the street. I am glad nothing happened, because if it had caught fire I would have been without a car, and we would have been without a home too.
It was a big pond under the gas tank, and I did not see it until I had started and backed my car enough to see the pond under where the gas tank was.
The reason for the leak was a plugged vent tube under the car. I got good help from you guys in the fuel forum. I did not realize the thin tube in the trunk went out outside the gas tank. It looked to me, from inside that it went back inside the tank, and I thought this was to help with filling the gas. Anyway, I blew it up with compressed air, I took the hose off where it sits on the filler neck, and tightened it around my air gun, and just gave it full pressure and whatever plugged the tube came out with a loud bang.
Here is a picture of the gas cap, that is non vented, and supposed to be non vented. I have replaced the rubber gasket / seal. I used 1/16" nitrile rubber sheet for that. And I have a lot left of it. I was thinking about cutting some pieces of the roll and put up for sale on ebay if anyone was interested. But never got around to it.
I have also messed with this other problem I had last fall / winter, water coming into the car from the cowl. I have just a week ago or something like that sprayed EvapoRust gel inside the cowl, and then after a while flushed it out with fresh water, and it is now quite nice in there. Then came all this wildfire crap and stopped me from continuing with that project.
During the winter I also ended up buying a small bench metal lathe in pieces, so I have been messing with that too. But, hopefully I will get something into the cowl to stop it from rusting more, and then I can go on with the stuff inside the car, heater box and so forth.
Bill