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spy007
01-15-2003, 03:21 PM
I wasn't sure where to post this, so I guess I'll break in the new category.

I live in Oregon where you can't pump your own gas, and my 76 is a real pain with the spring loaded gas nozzles...these are the kind that you have to either hold or wedge in or they pop out on you. Whenever I try to use one (I usually fill up in washington across the border, it's cheaper) it keeps clicking off and I have to keep pulling the trigger. Once in a great while it will do this with the regular gas nozzles, but usually not. I end up going to stations with the spring type because they are cheaper, coincidentally. Anyway, its a real hassle in Oregon because the gas pumpers wont pump for me because they think the tank is full when the nozzle keeps clicking off, and since I don't speak spanish I can't really tell them.

Does this happen to anyone else? Do I need to replace my filler neck or what?

-AC
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87SS
01-16-2003, 08:04 AM
I think it's because of the angle of the filler neck, nothing more (in other words I have the same problem). If I think about my Olds and the wife's Durango, both filler necks are at less of an angle...

BTW: What states don't allow you to pump your own gas, just curious.

spy007
01-16-2003, 12:46 PM
Only 2 states...Oregon, and I believe the other is New Jersey.