[AT] Gas can rant

[Mogrits]

Also, it's not into the water through the exhaust...it's out the bowl
overflows and carb throats inside the cowlings then leaking out of the
motors lower cover. Where the fumes and fuel collect is right where the
solenoid and starter fire off sparks when you start up.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Thomas O Mehrkam <tmehrkam at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Raw gas into the engine out the exhaust into the water is better than
> vapor in the air?
>
> How many fires have to happen before this is resolved.
>
> Lucky I still have a number of steel vented outboard tanks.  I will have
> to make sure I keep them painted so they last.
>
> On 8/2/2015 3:40 PM, Mogrits wrote:
> > I don't know how many of you use outboard motors but the new gas tanks
> for
> > them are a nightmare unto themselves. The standard tanks years ago used
> to
> > be metal, 5 gals and had a pressure vent built in. Then, they went with
> > plastic, six gallons and had a thumbscrew on the cap to open to vent.
> Many
> > a boater set out from the dock only to have their engine die because
> they'd
> > failed to open the vent and the motor starved for fuel when it reached a
> > vacuum in the tank. Now, due to EPA regs they are 6 gals with no vent
> > whatsoever. If you leave a tank in your boat in the sun, it will swell
> like
> > a balloon and worse, the pressure can over-ride your floats in older
> motor
> > carbs and pump gas out in the engine.
> >
> > Happened to a friend recently and he called Atwoods tech support (Large
> > manuf. of these pony tanks) Tech support guy said to call and thank your
> > local EPA office and by the way, Atwood sells an optional fuel tank
> > pressure shut off valve for 20.00 to put in the line before the bulb to
> > stop pressure from the tank from reaching your motor. (It is simply a
> fuel
> > safe ball valve). My friend said "So even if I have this valve and my
> tank
> > swells but my motor doesn't leak, what do I do?". The guy said, "you open
> > the gas cap slowly to relieve all the pressure then open the valve". So,
> > the EPA is so smart they require a no vent tank that has to withstand
> 5psi
> > of vapor pressure which can only be used by opening the cap and venting
> all
> > the vapors anyway.
> >
> > Stupid, Stupid stupid.
> >
> > Warren
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Dave Rotigel <rotigel at me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Dean, I bought one of these earlier this year. Works JUST FINE so far!
> >> See: http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200407825_200407825
> >>          Dave
> >>
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