Sounds like a dumb question--How do I fill my gas tank?

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take a car jack with you.... jack up rear end of car 5 feet high.. fill it... it whouldnt splash into your eyes... it will just get your head a little wet... hehe

sorry...

ok.. i dont have the issues you are discussing... i occasionally get a over fill.. but the pump shuts off before is gushes out... not sure what the problem is, but i dont know there is a regulatory committe on the gas pumps and it should have a safety shut off...

i have no idea why it would do all that... doesnt make sense

 

My filler neck is from a '73, and it does it..

 

mine does it too. i have to find the "sweet spot" with the nozzle and shut it off before its full. scooper, instead of getting wet just dont fill it all the way. i never fill mine or my boat all the way because the gas will spray out. i usually can get it close to full by just knowing roughly how much my tank will hold at 1/4 1/2 and 3/4. every once in a while though it will still spit a little from vapor build up, mostly on hot days when the vapor content is too high.

 

I never had a problem with my 70 model, maybe get an early modeltube and use it instead of one with the restrictor. Mine was able to put the whole nozzle in it and no splash backs.

 

I believe it has something to do with the vapor of the gas. My 84 pickup has had the exact opposite problem for years--I have a problem getting gas IN. Certain times of the year are worst than others, when it is extremely hot or cold seems to be the worst. Sometimes it takes 15 mins to pump 10 gals,it backs up in the neck, but now I think about it, that is the same problem you all are having. A fuel truck driver told me that gas was formulated differently for hot and cold weather, if you get the wrong formula and the weather changes,I.E., it's warm weather gas and the weather suddenly turns cold, you will have problems pumping it due to the vapors building up. I don't know for sure about this, but I have noticed in extremely hot or cold weather it's hard to pump into the truck without doing it real slow. One trick I have learned is to park on a incline whenever possible--with the fuel tank pointed slightly higher on the filler side[ pickup filler is on the drivers side], it seems to help quite a bit, my guess is it lets the vapors move up and out the filler while the liquid fuel is going in. Simon, you may be on the right track, just park facing downhill and everything will be allright!!

 

Mine does it no matter how hot or cold it is, or if the tank is almost empty or almost full. Does it no matter what if I put the gas in too fast. My gut feeling is it isn't vapors causing it.

Will a '70 filler neck work with a normal non drop in Maverick gas tank? I will start looking for one if it will. I'd love to be able to just click the thing on wide open and stand back and let it go.

 

The 1970 neck is shorter than a 1971-1977 neck.

I had a 1970 and it was hard to fill as well.

 

Never had a problem ever in any of my mavs... I am perplexed.
Dan

 

I thought the 70 was longer?

 

1971-1977 is long enough to go "down" into the tank an inch or so. On the 1970 tank...there is a rubber hose that connects the tank to the filler neck about 2 or 3 inches above the tank itself.

 

jamie,
was your mav rearended? the tube could be slightly bent. dont know that would be the cause for sure, but something to check. also check the little tab in the filler neck, looks like a metal tounge depressor, it could be bent and not letting the nozzle sit right. you probably checked those already but just a thought.

 

Just to clarify, my problem isn't with burping or vapors or anything like that (even though I do get some splashy burps sometimes). It is just that the filler tube is almost horizontal, and you really cannot tell how much gas is in there until you see it at the back of the filler tube, and by then, it is pouring out on you. The modern nozzles sometimes will not let you just yank the handle until it fills up and then click off. So I have to do it "by eye".

I think I will have to do what Sierra suggests, and just learn how much gas will get it close to full when I have 1/4 tank, etc. Then I can just shove the nozzle in, yank it full on until I know that the tank is almost full, and just let off and drive away. Most of the nozzles I have used will work at 100% flow if I shove it all the way in. But when I hold just the tip in so I can look in, about half of them will click off at 20% flow. Sometimes at the same station, so I really cannot find the rhyme or reason.

What size tank is stock on the 74? My Mustang II Haynes manual (closest thing I have to the Maverick) says 13 gallons.

 

My '74 parts car had a 15 gallon, same as '71-'73. '74 was the first year of the big bumpers so I assume they might have had the bigger tanks also, 18-19 gallon. The 15 gallon tanks have a pretty sharp angle from the bottom of the tank to the top rear of the tank, where the bigger tanks are more rounded from the bottom to the top rear.

 

Mine has a flat 30 degree angle, or so, along the back. 15?

 

I got the Maverick I took my filler neck and gas tank out of from the original owners son, and he said it had never been wrecked. I been going to mess with that tab but haven't had the chance. What is it's purpose, can I just remove it?