how do i make this idea work, moving fuel cap

[5tox]

Right my idea is to copy this rather cool idea on my 2 door mk1

 

 

 

Now ive got my fuel filler neck (from G&S Escorts)and the outer panel from an old rotten escort i need to work out how i make this work

 

The fuel filler neck comes from a mk1/2 estate/van and i chose this route as the metal filler neck will hopefully with a bit of light bending end up going down through my parcel shelf

 

The fuel filler neck is a little larger than the recessed panel i have and also has 4 bolt holes where the recessed panel is 3 bolt hole,

Does the filler neck sit behind the recessed panel or does it feed through the hole and sit the other side...

any ideas where the cork and rubber seals come into the equasion?

 

i may end up cutting the circumference of the filler neck down so it sits snugly inside of the recessed panel, ill have to cut away the bolt holes to make it fit and think of another way of securing it in place, perhaps a bracket on the back bolting it to the car

 

 

any ideas are welcome, before i start cutting

 

 

 

 

[Vista]

You know, this is something I messed around with on my van and now I wish I tried harder to retain the standard tank and filler neck as the custom jobbie is a pain to fill (spits back while filling) and slops back past the cap when going round a right hand bend and the tank is much more than half full (or it did until I fitted a thicker rubber on the cap).

 

What I can say is the van filler neck goes through from the outside. If you do it the other way, the cap doesn't seal properly against the filler neck end as not enough of it protrudes through the hole in the body. The cork goes between the body and the filler neck and the rubber seal I think went through the hole in the van floor behind the filler neck cover that fands have..................I can't remember for certain but I didn't refit it on my van as the layout is slightly different now.

[5tox]

cheers vista thats a big help, somebody else i know gave me a heads up on the fuel escaping on hard cornering, i think im gonna have some kind of baffle added just inside of the tank

[5tox]

Do van / estate / 2 door / 4 door etc... all use the same sized fuel filler cap?

 

if i bought a mk1 2 saloon fuel cap would it fit my mk1/2 van/estate fuel filler neck?

 

cheers Steve

[Vista]

Do van / estate / 2 door / 4 door etc... all use the same sized fuel filler cap?

 

if i bought a mk1 2 saloon fuel cap would it fit my mk1/2 van/estate fuel filler neck?

 

cheers Steve

 

I don't know, but as I have both here, give me 5 minutes and I'll tell you

 

Edit: No, the spare mk1 cap I have is much smaller than the van filler neck so the dogs that hold the cap on don't engage with the slots in the filler neck. I don't know if a mk2 saloon cap is larger though

[5tox]

cheers buddy ill have to bear that in mind when looking for a cap

 

ive had a play up the shed and cut down the filler neck diameter and also bored out the recessed panel to accept the larger filler neck

 

 

 

 

ill try and source a cap next and see how it sits, im still unsure of how ill get the filler neck to stay in place, perhaps itll be a few small tack welds on the back

[5tox]

bugger! ive learned the hard way that the van/estate fuel cap is approx 10cm in diameter so its bigger than the saloon recessed body panel i have

 

i have either got to find a fuel cap that is the diameter of a saloon petrol cap but fits the van/estate filler neck or use a larger van/estate recessed panel

 

im fairly close to just scrapping the idea altogether

[Vista]

I did some digging around for alternative options for mine and came up with this, it wasn't as expensive as I was expecting at £143.75 inc VAT and delivery but the cap itself would probably need modification of your bodywork to fit it. I wish I'd found it sooner but by the time I identified that I had an issue to solve, my bodywork and paintwork was all complete.

 

http://www.newton-equipment.com/Angled%20Neck_NewtonEquipment.pdf

[5tox]

Thats pretty cool, i really like that