Ranger locking gas cap - available???

Too bad you told David not to bother- he may have come up with this:

SC Tom

IF there is a locking gas cap for the application, it has to play nice with the Check light. There might be a cap that fits -- plugs the hole -- but is not intgended for the application, and that cap is not likely to play nice.

And this is a direct link to a locking gas cap? I think not.

Thanks for taking the time to post.

Joe

Thanks Jeff. I appreciate the information.

Joe

You should try it. And bookmark it. you have to do a few key strokes, but there is a Fuel Cap entry under the '97 Ford Ranger.

I saw that Jeff. Unless I am missing something in the description of the locking fuel caps, I am not sure these locking fuel caps meet Ford specs.

Joe

Of course they do.

It only costs $15 to find out, and if some moron steals you gas (highly unlikely by the way if they choose to do it by siphoning through the filler hole) they will swallow almost that much gas getting the siphon going.

The modus operandi of gas theives is to drill a hole in the gas tank and catch the contents as it falls out. Sucking gas from the filler hole is next to impossible anymore.

Hand pump siphons are readily available. That said, the additional info you posted got me to searching about siphoning gas. Looks like it is indeed next to impossible now.

As for sucking the gas from the filler hole, that reminds me of a newspaper article from the mid-seventies. A guy parked his RV on the street. When he came out the next day, he found a siphon in the "gas filler tube" and vomit on the sidewalk. Seems the would-be gas thief inserted the siphon into the waste storage tank.

Joe