On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 18:48:14 GMT, "Rob V" wrote:

OK - this may sound like a really stupid question - but today was the second
time it has happened to me.
This is our first season w/ our boat - I tow it to the lake and fill it on
the way home at the local gas station.
I normally wait until it gets to about 1/4 tank before I fill it. I know
the tank is 40 gallons - so I usually put in about 30 gallon. The first
time I filled it - I had no idea how much gas was in there and the gas just
spewed over when it was filled - it was not like a car where the pump would
stop when its full. Anyways - yesterday - same thing happened again -
filling it up and whoosh - out comes the gas all over the side of the boat.
****ed me off b/c I just spent time cleaning and waxing it.
Anyways - maybe im just an idiot - but how does one fill the tank w/out
blowing gas all over when its full.

On my Ranger, I slow down about 2/3 of the "I think it's this empty"
point. Then just take my time filling - it shuts off then - no
problems.

The problem is the venting of the gas tanks. On a few Rangers I've
owned over the years, the flapper valve never worked properly allowing
for the free flow of fuel right out the vent. Thus, the "I think it's
this empty" rule.

Trial and error my friend, trial and error.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653