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Holland J. Phillips wrote:
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> People,
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> Could I trouble a few of you, including some owners of new '98 cars, to
> go out and check to see what material (metal or plastic) your gas tanks
> are made of? I just got my '97 back from the shop with a new tank that
> is plastic, and I'm almost positive that the original tank was steel.
> I'm more curious than anything, but I would like to know...
It's plastic according to Bentley, and the one in my 1995 looks
plastic to me. Remember, there were early problems with the molding
procedure, and some cars got malformed tanks.
> PS: I'll be posting the long version of why I have a new gas tank
> sometime soon.
Putting on my swami hat and staring into my crystal stopwatch of
truth...
(SWAMI Mode>
I see an closed breather valve. Wait, the picture is getting clearer.
I see an orphaned gas cap sitting in a box at a full-service gas
station in Oregon. Now I see a Western Auto sign, and a Stant brand
gas cap. I see you screwing the replacement Stant gas cap onto
your car in the parking lot. Eeeek! It's 5 mm too short to hit
the breather release lever in your gas filler neck! As you drive,
I see your gas tank slowly decreasing in capacity, getting smaller
and smaller until it eventually collapses from it's own internal
vaccuum.
(/SWAMI Mode>
Either that, or you ran over a branch in your driveway and it punctured
the plastic tank. :-) I should probably put something in the archives
about the Stant gas cap, as that actually did happen to a Jetta GL
owner that's a friend of somebody I work with.....
-Arthur
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Sun Dec 21 17:52 CST 1997