The Canary Files: Gas Filler neck install help!!

[kav]

I'm having trouble installing the gas filler neck on my 1969 911. I've tried installing the rubber sleeve first but I can't get the filler neck in at the correct angle to go through it's hole. I've also tried installing the sleeve on the filler neck first but then I can't seat the sleeve into the hole on the body.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

-Kav.

[Lake Guy]

Yea I recall that was a bit of a ***** for sure. You will get it. I think I put the rubber and neck roughly inplace, got the rubber done, then slid the neck down into the tank coupling.

[kenikh]

Lube. Lots of lube.

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[metalracer]

I like to get the rubber neck fully installed with the retaining wire, etc. As Kenik suggests, LOTS of lube on the rubber and the entire length of the filler neck itself. Dish soap works well for all stubborn rubber -- I keep a bottle of it in the shop just for installing rubber seals and bushings. It'll drop right in.

[kav]

Yes the dish soap did it! It's in!

Yes seat the rubber sleeve first in the body hole and lots of dish soap on the rubber and filler neck, push in while twisting 10 - 2 and it just popped in.

Thanks!

-Kav.

[CobraR1339]

Whew, Had the same issue last weekend.

Some things on these cars make you wonder how they did it at the factory. I am fighting the damn shifter springs right now.

KAV is you have figured it out, send me a tip. I bagged them after a couple hours of fighting, will come back to it another day.

BTW we are working the on the same 69 car, I have failed to post many pics as you have done such a great job documenting your work. On some areas I am a tad ahead fo you and others behind you .

Keep up the awesome work.

[drabels]

Hi,

I found this thread, after just battling the same issue whilst reassembling my 911SC. I was about to try the dish soap trick, but then had another idea which turned out to be quite successful. I thought I would share.

First, I put the rubber sleeve in dry. The trick here is to push the whole end in (including the sealing surface) into the body cavity and then pull it out gradually - that way it makes a perfect seal.

Next, I wrapped the filler neck in a fairly strong plastic bag - this acts as the "lube" - up until the little vent tube, but not all the way up to the top. That allowed me to simply push the filler neck through the rubber sleeve. Then you just pull off the plastic bag, voila!



No scratches on the bodywork or filler neck, the rubber sleeve is sealing perfectly against the body.

Regards,

Daniel

[Gretz]

I know this thread is a couple years old, but here goes:

I’m to the point where I’m installing the filler neck but I’m having a bear of a time with the opening for the vent. Is there a trick to getting that part through? I feel like jamming it in, even with dish soap, will damage the rubber gasket. I don’t quite understand the plastic bag trick above. I’m trying to think of a way to fashion a wedge of some sort before the vent tube to gradually widen it so I can jam the tube through. Anyone else have some sage advice?

[chucksmith]

lube it all up and get the first part of the neck through the big hole up to the vent. Then use a coupe of large zip ties through the opening of the rubber sleeve and out the inside of the frunk and over the fender and then use another one just like it a little further up past the vent. Tighten them up and it pulls the big opening in the sleeve open more and the vent slips right in. Two pieces of wire or string can probably work also, but the zip ties hold it open better. Cut the ties and remove them.

[Focker]

I found that hand cleaner works even better than dish soap. I use the Permatex brand.

[drabels]

As I wrote, all I did was pop the filler neck into a cheap plastic bag. Poked it through the hole through to the froot and gently pushed it through, perhaps with some mild twisting back and forth. The bag stops it from snagging on the rubber and it glides right through. Once it's through, you pull the bag out on the froot side. No mess, and virtually no clean-up. YMMV.

[Gretz]

Chuck’s suggestion worked great! I happened to have some very large zip ties. The only way for me to get the filler neck through without damaging the gasket was to use multiple zip ties to protect the rubber.

[Cloggie]

Kav, your YouTube channel is great....its helped me immensely.

Thank you

D.

[chucksmith]

Gretz, glad it worked out for you. I scratched my head a bit before I hit on the zip tie idea.