what the hell went wrong?

[red66toy]

Came home from class today to find this lovely disaster. I filled the tank and parked it and a couple days ago and all of a sudden today it started leaking out of the cap? WTF! This day sucks.

 

[Lusedekache]

Did you spill some gas when you were filling it up?

 

[alstaz]

Dude, I feel your pain. The same s*** happened to me. I filled up and parked the cruiser in the driveway (slight incline) Went golfing and came back a few hours later to find that there was a little overflow through the vent and it got baked in the sun to cause major paint damage. I had some color matched paint put in an aresol can and after priming, sanding and painting it I can hardly tell.

Lesson learned. Use the gas before it leaks out.

Bummer!

 

[red66toy]

Did you spill some gas when you were filling it up?

I didn't spill any gas. I am not even parked on an uneven surface. When I open the gas cap I can see the gas, but I didn't even fill it up that much. Oh well, off to a paint shop I guess.

 

[LandCruiserPhil]

Gas expands when the temperature rises. When it’s stored underground its cool.

 

[Civil1]

Man that sucks!

 

[Doug_S]

I too feel your pain. A similar thing happened to a motorcycle that I had. I had an old nasty aftermarket cap on the tank. You may want to put on an OEM gas cap when you do the paint repair. Good luck!

 

[dd113]

Vent your tank.

 

[red66toy]

Well, I found one place in this whole area that can match paint and put it in an aresol can so I will jump on this project this weekend. Doug, I think you are right, its time for a new gas cap.

 

[aZ..fj-40]

New Cap??????

Vent your tank.

A new cap won't help, if you take a ood look at the picture, there is a vent hole in the filler neak, just below the cap! That hole is the vent, and you can't top off the tank unless your going to drive for 20 miles. On a hot day you could dump a quart on the ground in less than an hour, I know, I have a '65.... Earl

 

[folsom50]

Petrol/dino expands greatly with the temperature. I filled (topped off) the 300 gal waste oil tank at work a few weeks ago, I left the oil about 6 inches down, a few hours and 30 degrees later I drove in the yard and it looked like the Lebrea(sp) tar-pit spitting out the filler hole.

 

[badkarma]

Yeah, mine does that on a regular basis every time I fill it up during the summer. But my paint job isn't all purdy like yours. I feel for ya man.

 

[red66toy]

The thing I don't get is that it wasn't even that hot today(70). dd113, there is a vent hole just under that cap.

 

[PabloCruise]

There has to be a paint prep issue though...

My Honda has such a short filler neck that if I let it auto-fill, it regularly barfs gas down the side. It is a '94 with factory paint and has never bubbled, lifted, discolored...

 

[gillti]

I think it's pretty common!

this summer I had all sorts of problems with expanding gas. Leaked everywhere. The longer I have my rig, the more I learn. They are peculiar animals, aren't they?

 

[red66toy]

There has to be a paint prep issue though...

My Honda has such a short filler neck that if I let it auto-fill, it regularly barfs gas down the side. It is a '94 with factory paint and has never bubbled, lifted, discolored...

Yeah, the guy at the paint shop said my dad(who painted my cruiser) didn't put enough hardener in the paint.

 

[peesalot]

yup , I'm with pablo , paint problem . fuel spill should not do that to properly applied paint , even cheap paint , even rattle can should not do that.

 

[Jman]

My rattle can red is impervious to gas spills--good thing!

 

[sanjuancruiser]

had the same thing --sucks. jb welded the vent hole didn't help. got a rattle can -helped and the paint never peeled again but the gas still leakes out. and yes dave it is vented.

 

[ken_79-fj40]

Yep, it's a paint problem. The same thing happened on my buddies early bronco. Although his truck is base /clear and it just took off the clearcoat. But he's got dual tanks. And it's a show truck. The body shop got quite an earful on that one.