From: Brian Placzankis (plaz@mac.com)
Date: Fri Sep 23 2005 - 18:08:44 PDT
Ed,
No problem and thanks for the info. It is definitely my filler hose
that is bad. Now if that darned filler neck came with a new hose...
thanks,
plaz
1985 M1008 CUCV
On Sep 23, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Ed wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I got my newest catalog from them today and on page 99, item number
> 32-3322
> is an 84-91 diesel filler neck! It's the metal part that goes from
> the cap
> to the fuel filler hose that's attached to the tank. The price
> listed is
> $89.95 and that should be correct as far as I can tell. Sorry if I
> mislead
> you in any way.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ed
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Placzankis" <plaz@mac.com>
> To: "Ed" <mojoedd@bellsouth.net>
> Cc: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 15:51
> Subject: Re: [MV] M1008 Fuel Tank Filler Hose
>
>
>> Ed,
>>
>> Actually no they don't. I checked earlier this morning and they
>> indeed
> sell one but they did not know whether it would fit a diesel or not
> (never
> mind a CUCV). This point was unclear to me as well so at lunchtime
> I did a
> little recon of a local boneyard and managed to check 2 different
> mid 80s
> vintage gasoline chevys and one mid 70s series gasoline GMC and all
> of the
> fuel tank filler neck hoses were definitely of a smaller diameter.
> This
> wasn't by much but they were absolutely smaller. The fuel tanks
> themselves
> even looked different and had some kind of an extra flange. I
> think the
> diesels must be bigger so that they can partake of the nice fast
> pumps used
> by the big rigs and the big diameter flexible nozzles (sometimes
> named after
> a donkey's part) that fit on the jerry cans and other containers.
>>
>> plaz
>>
>> 1985 M1008 CUCV
>>
>> On Friday, September 23, 2005, at 02:47PM, Ed <mojoedd@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>>
>>> LMC truck should have them on line.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>
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