No neck fuel tanks

Jim Shoe wrote:
I have more trouble finding a station where the pump islands are parallel to the road instead of perpendicular. I drive a 'C' and pull a toad.

I also don't like the pumps perpendicular to the building. I have found that entering at the building side and exiting on the road side helps tremendously if that is all I can find. I also drive a C and pull a toad.

In response to your comments, it appears that the tank is so close to the actual fuel cap that there is no neck, just a rubber baffle. In order for the fuel nozzle to

stay in the tank on automatic fueling the end of the nozzle is inside the tank. It clicks off and then it's a slow go after that. It's not a big deal but i am going to

investigate the vapor/vent line and see what's up.

I found that the pump shut off when the gas in the neck backed up to the sensor in the nozzle. The gas was going in too fast. But I don't have to lock the nozzle all the way open. If I locked the pump handle about half way open, it didn't back up in the neck. Gives me a chance to clean the windshield and fill up the station's black tank instead of mine.
I have more trouble finding a station where the pump islands are parallel to the road instead of perpendicular. I drive a 'C' and pull a toad. Backing out isn't an option. I start looking at a half tank.

My buddy used to have a lot of trouble filling his rear fuel tank in has 87 class C Ford. I took it apart (after a frustrating 1000 mile drive in it) and found that the vent line wrapped around the fuel filler line. It would get a tiny amount of liquid gas in it, blocking the air leaving the fuel tank, and as a result the first 15 gallons would go right in, but then it would take 'forever' to get another 10 gallons, and even longer to get the last 3-4 gallons so that the fuel gauge would read 'full'.

After the repair, on the way home, we could get up to 25 gallons right in, and it would read full. One stop, we got in 33 gallons! He had reached 'E' and kept driving the last 20 miles into Barsto. We did not run out, but was able to fill it all the way.

I installed a second tank, now he can run the rear one dry and get up to 40 gallons in it! So we still had 7 gallons after it reached "E" and after driving another 20 miles into town! We where getting around 7.5MPG. So filling up every 15 gallons was a REAL Pain! The forward tank can hold 22 gallons, so now he can use all of both tanks, or at least all of the rear one, then 3/4 of the forward one, and still have about 4 gallons left to find a gas station! Then fill up with about 50 gallons! So much better than filling every 100 miles.

I hope that you get the problem straightened out!

Fred.

We don't RV in CA with our Class C so we haven't used those sealed nozzles. But I know we DO have a vent line from tank all the way back to the filler plate. Do you know you don't have one? Ours wasn't run right, compared with how the filler pipe ran, and was hard to fill. I rearranged the two and improved the situation. But it's not a Winnebago and it's not in CA...