In a message dated 7/23/2000 1:43:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> The air space in the tank is to allow for fuel expansion when hot. If you
> have fuel in what was once free air space, when it expands, it will go out
> the overflow, unless you have a Ca. model, then, it will go to the
charcoal
> cannister. That is why it is there..... not to cheat you out of fuel
> capacity.
>
I have had the neck cut out of mine for a long time and always fill up the
tank to the top. Never had the fuel expand and go out the overflow.
Bob