Thread: Fuel Filler

Originally Posted by Woolly

Hi All,
Just wondering if any others have trouble filling up with fuel. My 1980 Rangie is very reluctant to accept more than a trickle of petrol from the bowser, any more and it triggers the cut off in the nozzle......

I remember my '79 back in the day .. a joy to fill. I got a Holden Rodeo to replace it's everyday duties, and it's filler was a total pain.
RRC you just held the pump at full tilt, and it'd fill pretty much all the way. No obstruction just easy flow in. (the rodeo was a total pain by comparison)

But! When my brother had the D2(now mine) he had similar situation, where he couldn't use full flow. Many times we'd use the same bowser(me in my D1) and the D1 would use the full (hi-flow) bowser rate, his D2 would barely allow a trickle.

We did the same, pulled hoses off here and there, and finally pulled the main (large) filler neck hose from steel pipe to tank. Wasn't easy, and had to undo the filler neck, and then the pain it was to refit the o-ring back.

But what we found was one of those concertina necks that attach to a fuel can down in the depths of the rubber hose near the tank end. Couldn't see it from the filler(too deep).
Anyhow, with that obstruction removed, can use full hi-flow pumps as you'd expect from a large diameter filler neck.

I don't think the RRC should have a baffle in the filler system .. I'm sure mine didn't.

They had a filter in but that just clipped in (twist) and could be removed. No baffles

Thanks for the replies.
Pretty sure I have identified the problem; the Brown Davis tank is about 30mm higher than the original, which means the tank inlet is that much higher, so now the run from the pipe with the petrol cap on it is uphill rather than horizontal. This creates a small lake in the inlet that incoming fuel has to get past. Solutions would seem to be either clean up the original tank, which luckily I have, or find another outer pipe and modify it. As always whenever I do something on the Rangie, I find another question: Attached to the breather pipe where it connects to the filler pipe is another small plastic pipe that disappears into the body work. Is this for the charcoal cannister or something else?
Cheers, Woolly.