Pumping gas.....

[mrvette]

Pumping gas......
Seems to be a silly question but....WTF is going ON with gas pumps that most cars seem to take a slo fill, and the class C motor home will hardly take ANY fill speed without kicking the stupid nozzle off....

where the '72 vette has this nice large hole in the filler neck there, and so I can go full bore on it, and get the damn gas IN the tank in my lifetime....

another thing, the output from all electric fuel pumps is just like water from a hose, steady stream.....WTF is all the foamy crap coming from the nozzle at gas pumps?? something to do with that fuel shut off I suppose, but why so sensitive?? and that damn foam just will not flow good down the filler necks...

so what to do to get ~50 gallons into the motor home?? both tanks have been totally apart, there are NO restrictions in the lines, but both M/H tanks kick the nozzle off all the time, hardly get any gas in it....

the '99 Escort suffers the same fate, but not as bad, so does the Miata, same affect....WTF gives and how to cure the problem...??


:crap::surrender:

 

[TimAT]

I'd bet a good share of that is from the vapor recovery system they use at the pumps. Can't have any of that bad ol' hydrocarbon vapor escaping you know.
as far as the air/foamy crap, it's almost a bet that the pump is sucking air somewhere and using it to confound the metering. So you get less and pay more.

 

[DeeVeeEight]

Gene, it is simply psychological abuse inflicted proportionally with the rising gas prices. The foamy gas? That there is oxygenated fuel sonny!:smash:

 

[mrvette]

I'd bet a good share of that is from the vapor recovery system they use at the pumps. Can't have any of that bad ol' hydrocarbon vapor escaping you know.
as far as the air/foamy crap, it's almost a bet that the pump is sucking air somewhere and using it to confound the metering. So you get less and pay more.

Florida don't have any of that vapor recovery crap, thank God....

it seems to measure out ok when filling up....liquid in the tank....easy seen in the vette, we know the crapassity of the other two....but something has to be done to get the damn fuel in the camper....so I have to play with it, I guess....

:twitch:

 

[mrvette]

Gene, it is simply psychological abuse inflicted proportionally with the rising gas prices. The foamy gas? That there is oxygenated fuel sonny!:smash:

Yeh, right.....:confused2::surrender:

 

[DC3]

I wonder if it is ethanol related. Nearly every gas pump in town now pumps much slower than it used to do before ethanol. The one pump I found that still pumps fast, foams bad.

I HATE ETHANOL!

DC

 

[mrvette]

I wonder if it is ethanol related. Nearly every gas pump in town now pumps much slower than it used to do before ethanol. The one pump I found that still pumps fast, foams bad.

I HATE ETHANOL!

DC

Well, I not like it either, but so they say on the pumps, as elsewhere I assume, MAY contain 10% at any rate the Escort gets 33 mpg same as it always got...stupid car has 190k miles on it too,
Miata get 25-27 mpg..not so bad...

vette don't get driven on freeways that often, so these little trips of a mile to the store and back make it look terrible....

it's NOT the rate of pumping, the pumps are fast enough, i'ts the damn foaming of the gas in the filler neck/pipe and it backs up ...not going into the damn tank...

:surrender::suicide:

 

[DC3]

. . . it's NOT the rate of pumping, the pumps are fast enough, i'ts the damn foaming of the gas in the filler neck/pipe and it backs up ...not going into the damn tank...

I think that's why all the pumps around here pump slower. They had to slow them down to stop the foaming.

DC

 

[68/70Vette]

I get my revengeon the vapor recovery gas handles. With the pump running, when I'm getting to the amount of gas I want to buy, I suddently pull the handle out of the gas fill tube and spill about 1/4 cup of gasoline on the ground. (If you do this be careful not to get it on your shoes!!)

I dispise the slow pump rates on pumps nodays. What's the purpose of this. Do station owners think I (we) like to stand extra amounts of time pumping gas?

 

[turtlevette]

It's Obama............ irritating all the grumpy old farts.

 

[big2bird]

Do station owners think I (we) like to stand extra amounts of time pumping gas?

I'm quite sure the station owners would like to get you in and out quick, not slow.

The pumps hang down in the tanks now immersed, not in the dispenser.

 

[mrvette]

Do station owners think I (we) like to stand extra amounts of time pumping gas?

I'm quite sure the station owners would like to get you in and out quick, not slow.

The pumps hang down in the tanks now immersed, not in the dispenser.

But no one got any clue as to why the FOAM?? I can look into the vette tank when filling, and what comes outta the nozzle is foamy gasoline, and I fail to see WHY??

maybe some calls around to fuel places here in Jax....I gotta figger out how to get the damn tanks filled in the motor home in my lifetime....

:sos: