filling gas tanks is expremely slow

[sergioy]

I was wondering if this is a very common thing with boats When I go to fill the gas tanks on both my ski boat and fishing boat, I have to go extremely slow or it will kill the pump handle, and I do mean sslllloooowwwwww. And with todays gas prices, that jsut gives me time to stew over how high prices are <br />Is there somethign I can do to speed this process up???

 

[Buttanic]

Re: filling gas tanks is expremely slow

Make sure something is not plugging the vent line. If the vent through hull fitting does not have a screen in it insects will build mud nests in them and plug them up.

 

[vipzach]

Re: filling gas tanks is expremely slow

I have to turn the handle upside down to get mine to fill up. I know my vent isn't plugged up because the gas comes out of it when it is full.

 

[monkeyboi]

Re: filling gas tanks is expremely slow

mine fills slowly as well. only filled it twice so far. need to inspect vent on mine for (peace of mind)<br /><br />when it was mostly empty, could feel air coming out of vent with force, but after i reached about half capacity felt airflow was decreased dramatically.

 

[AJ168]

Re: filling gas tanks is expremely slow

I also have this problem. The feul dock attendant told me that it was because there was a kink in the line for the vent. Never fixed it because it isn't really worth it to be ripping apart the boat just to save a few minutes at the pump. <br /><br />The nozzle will shut off if you hold it too far down inside. Lift it up a few inches and then it should stop popping off.

 

[tommays]

Re: filling gas tanks is expremely slow

look at the vent even if its not cloged mine came from the factory with a full 360 deg loop WTF <br /><br />allways had problems changed it to a normal by the CG BOOK path and much less problems <br /><br />also if i stand on the transome it fills worse it really likes to be level<br /><br />they tend to put the fill and vent lines near each other at the rear of the tanks on a lot of boats<br /><br />tommays