gas cap venting

[olderthandirt]

The instructions on gas cap say to drill holes to allow venting... I had Skylane 182 and replaced gas caps do to water intrusion..this sounds like to me same thing..place for water to get into gas tank??? anyone have comment?? Dick

 

[tomkk]

From Vans: "if you have the vent line from the tank instaled the cap can be left unmodified."

 

[Rick_A]

From Vans: "if you have the vent line from the tank instaled the cap can be left unmodified."

Tom is absolutely correct. The instructions that say to drill the cap are out-of-date.

 

[olderthandirt]

out of date??

out of date instructions on cap that came last week?? and I bought the factory tank so would guess it has current vent line described?

 

[tomkk]

Assuming you got your tank recently, I'd guess it has the vent fitting but you can easily check to make sure. Check out pages 37-01 and 37-08 of the KAI. You can see the vent and tank fitting back near the fuel filler and can check your tank.

 

[Rick_A]

out of date instructions on cap that came last week?? and I bought the factory tank so would guess it has current vent line described?

Yep. The instructions packaged with the gas gap have never been updated. When I did my tank this past summer, I called Van's to verify that I did NOT need to drill the cap. I had the same out-of-date instructions packaged with my cap.

I'm sure they would save themselves a few phone calls if they updated instructions packed with the cap.