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Topic: Repo Gas Cap for 70 Mach I
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HHuggins
Gearhead Posts: 125
From: Laguna Niguel, CA
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 12-30-2002 01:43 AM
  
Happy Holidays everyone!My wife bought me a repop gas cap for my Mach I for xmas. It seems that you now are required to use a small cap inside the "pop open" Mach I assembly. The little parts list shows a metal spring that fits between the pop-open cap and the "safety" cap, but there wasn't one in the box. Do they nomrally ship with that part? HH ------------------
_ _____________________ _ Harley D. Huggins II
Laguna Niguel, CA 1970 Mach I
1998 GT Convertible
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clevelandstyle
Gearhead Posts: 474
From: Connersville, IN
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 12-30-2002 10:13 AM
OK. here the deal. The original gas cap was a flip open woth a seal on the door. In a collision, if the cap was struck, it would flip open, spilling fuel. About 8 or 10 years ago, after being sued a few times all new stock gas caps were sent to Stant Mft. in Connerville, Indiana for rework. Stant was the original maker of the flip open gas caps. They removed the spring and seal from the flip door, and packaged a new cam-on gas cap with it. The flip door is now nonfunctional. It's only there for appearance. That is the way all new flip open caps are shipped now. It stinks , but that's the only way you can get a new one. You can still get an original at a swap meet,buy they cost a lot, too.As for the spring between the door and the cap, it is not needed. It's funny. The "repop" and the original "OE" gas caps were both made at Stant on the original tooling. I think the only difference is the OE cap had an autolite emblem inside the cover. After the cap went out of production, they removed the Autolite emblem and added a "SM" for Stant Manufacturing for service replacements and aftermarket.
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Ben
Grabber Green '70 Mach I 351C 4V
Robbin Egg Blue '79 Fairmont 351C 4V [This message has been edited by clevelandstyle (edited 12-30-2002).]
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cobravenom71
Gearhead Posts: 492
From: KIssimee, Fl USA
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 12-30-2002 10:42 AM
On the re-issue of the 71 style pop-open caps, I have been told it is failrly easy to convert them back to the original condition, where the 'flip' would actually be the cap, and not have a cap inside. I have never done this myself though, so I'm not too sure how easy it really is.
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