Punching the fuel neck?
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How are you punching the fuel necks out of you trucks? A new station just opened up and it has the big nozzle and wont fit in my tanks. It pumps 35 gal per minute and I would like to fuel without the huge mess.
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I picked up a hole saw from Home Depot. (Not sure of the size but will check when I get back home this afternoon.) If you get the right size, it fits perfectly inside the neck.
Take the neck out of the truck by removing the three screws and two clams. Drill that sucker out. Flush all the metal particles out and re-install. Some here have just stuffed a rag into the neck to keep the particles from going into the tank but I played it safe by removing it.
How are you punching the fuel necks out of you trucks? A new station just opened up and it has the big nozzle and wont fit in my tanks. It pumps 35 gal per minute and I would like to fuel without the huge mess.
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I picked up a hole saw from Home Depot. (Not sure of the size but will check when I get back home this afternoon.) If you get the right size, it fits perfectly inside the neck.
Take the neck out of the truck by removing the three screws and two clams. Drill that sucker out. Flush all the metal particles out and re-install. Some here have just stuffed a rag into the neck to keep the particles from going into the tank but I played it safe by removing it.
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It pumps 35 gal per minute and I would like to fuel without the huge mess.
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Can you say NASCAR pit stop? I wish they flowed that fast around here, I hate stopping for fuel. Even at the big truck pumps it takes a couple minutes to fill the tank (29gal).
It pumps 35 gal per minute and I would like to fuel without the huge mess.
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Can you say NASCAR pit stop? I wish they flowed that fast around here, I hate stopping for fuel. Even at the big truck pumps it takes a couple minutes to fill the tank (29gal).
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The big nozzles fill the trucks up fast but are a real PITA to top off the tank to the cap.
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I thing that I have found is that on my last 2 diesels (Dodges,) if you fuel at a high flow rate into the regular size filler neck, the fuel has a nasty tendency to foam up heavily and puke out all over the side of the truck and you long before the tank is full. I think that it might have something to do with not enough air escape capability with the stock filler neck at high fill rates. Big trucks and semi's don't have this problem as they usually have a 4"-6" fueling cap that let's enough of the air eacape back out while fueling. Just what I have experenced anyway...
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Ford has used at least three different types of fuel filler restrictor plates. And later they didn't put one in at all.
The easiest one to get rid of is a plastic or nylon material. Hole saw or Dremel tool will get rid of it in a hurry. Or simply punch and tear it out with a big screwdriver or some such.
Harder to get rid of is a soft metal restrictor plate. That one requires a hole saw with a metal-cutting blade or a Dremel tool with a metal-cutting blade.
But mine had a very-hard metal plate in there. A hole saw wouldn't touch it. I wore out 3 or 4 Dremal blades before I gave up and found the recip saw with a long bi-metal blade. I sawed that puppy up into several pie slices, then bent the slices down into the neck. Ugly, but effective. And nobody sees the ugly but me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shrug.gif
Since then, I've stopped at truckstops coast to coast, and never had a problem with the big fuel-filler nozzles. Except one time, several years ago. In the back roads of New Jersey there was one truck stop that had huge nozzels that wouldn't even go into the mouth of my filler tube. So I went across the street and filled up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/warmsmile.gif
The easiest one to get rid of is a plastic or nylon material. Hole saw or Dremel tool will get rid of it in a hurry. Or simply punch and tear it out with a big screwdriver or some such.
Harder to get rid of is a soft metal restrictor plate. That one requires a hole saw with a metal-cutting blade or a Dremel tool with a metal-cutting blade.
But mine had a very-hard metal plate in there. A hole saw wouldn't touch it. I wore out 3 or 4 Dremal blades before I gave up and found the recip saw with a long bi-metal blade. I sawed that puppy up into several pie slices, then bent the slices down into the neck. Ugly, but effective. And nobody sees the ugly but me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shrug.gif
Since then, I've stopped at truckstops coast to coast, and never had a problem with the big fuel-filler nozzles. Except one time, several years ago. In the back roads of New Jersey there was one truck stop that had huge nozzels that wouldn't even go into the mouth of my filler tube. So I went across the street and filled up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/warmsmile.gif
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