Gas Tank

Aug 11, 2004 6 Replies
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I had an interesting thing happen to me at the gas station.. I had read about the mods to the gas tank to get the extra 5 gallons.. Make a 15 gallon tank to a 20... Well.. Thinking about it as I was gassing up the Jeep..I wondered if I could fool the vent so I had an idea.. Instead of going full throttle in filling up.. I pumped in about 10 or so gallons then eased off the trigger.. I was going real slow but going.. First was 12 gallons.. then



13.. then 14.. and I thought.. yeah.. it will kick off around 15.. But nope.. 15 then 16 then 17.. I kept looking for gas to run out of the bottom of the Jeep... It stopped on 17.82 gallons... It was cool... But it took a long time to get there... Thought I would pass this along...

Ben



95 YJ 2.5L


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Just curious ...why did this work? Is it because of the splashing in the tank? Does some of the gas get a chance to settle somewhere in the lines? I don't know much about fuel systems so I'm kinda curious. I'll go try this one day when I feel like blowing a paycheck filling my CJ to max ;p

griffin '85 CJ7

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The vent blows bubbles back up to the top of the filler tube. The nozzle has a little vacuum hole that senses these bubbles as a full tank and shuts off.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

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I do this with my 97 all the time, works great; but if I keep filling, it will start coming out of the bottom.

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You can fill at full speed, then shake the crap out of your Jeep, and repeat until you get the dome at the top of the tank filled.

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