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timmac
Apr 15, 2014Explorer
FuelFunnel wrote:
If these calculations are correct, he should be able to smell that much loss by walking around his rig.
I wonder if by topping off the tank at home using his portable gas can, he may be covering the internal vent line in the tank with liquid gasoline. As the temperature changes, this raw gas escapes out the vent/charcoal canister. Unless we live next door to a gas station, most of us probably burn a gallon or two just getting back home after a fillup and therefore have a little air space in the tank.
In other words, it might not be possible to keep a gas tank completely full in an unstable environment without somehow sealing the vent lines.
Kris
That was my thought, they had a add on TV here in Vegas for a few years about not topping off your tank at the pump, when the pump clicks off that's all the fuel you need, the rest evaporates off and causes our air quality to go down during the summer, maybe his fuel lost is from filling over full with a portable gas tank every 2 weeks..
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