Ok bear with me its 8 in the morning i have had little sleep was on duty from 6pm-2am and i wanted to test how to link a photo from another sight i orderd one of these guys thinking maybe they wont screw up with it being as obvious as that.










P.S. Look turns out I am not as dumb as I look

 

I like how they're color coded...

 

I have an immense collection of gas/fuel caps, fitting from way back in Model T days, to the present.

No I don't collect these for a hobby.

Our place of business is next over the hill from a busy cross-roads with a gas station in each of four corners.

I go out to the mail-box, I find a cap.

I walk to the corner, I find a cap.

Been doing this for thirty years.

I actually carry two spares that fit each vehicle I own and toss the rest in a big bin.

I have never lost a cap, myself, save for the one that got stolen off my old Chevy, hooked to the horse-trailer, in the woods, trail-riding.

It was one of the visible, made in the bed-side, caps that are so hard to find; so, someone that had lost theirs, stole mine.

 

I think that cap IS an excellent idea. There have been many who have pumped GAS into their diesel tanks, and even more whose family members have done it. I'd like to see a green one that locks too. If the prices continue to rise we will have to start locking our caps or get the lockable doors just to try to keep our fuel in our tank. Already fuel thefts are on the rise.

CD

 

as neat or as safe as a locking cap or door is there also a major pita it only takes once were you have to destroy the cap to fuel up or have to bust your fancy brushed steel locking door to get acess to your fuel cap my experiance is the like to freeze up in the winter.

Ya I will throw the old cap in the tool box draw filed under misc parts that rattle around for years tell i find a use for them.

 

We ran a filling station, from the late fifties until the early eighties.

In the mid-seventies, there was an "ENERGY SHORTAGE".

Gas suddenly went from 31 cents/gallon to 59 cents/gallon.

Gas thieves were rampant.

Many people rushed in and bought el-cheapo locking gas-caps.

There was even a spiral wire thingie that you could twist down in the filler-neck, that was supposed to make it impossible to get a siphon hose in it.

I soon learned to HATE locking gas-caps, especially the two and three part types.

Old Suzy Housewife would pull up to the pumps--there was no such thing as self-service back then--, hand you a wad full of keys with the wrong one sticking up, and expect you to fight/cuss off the locking cap, so she could get two dollars worth of gas.

She would be back tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that, and never more than two dollars worth.

We finally got to not putting the caps back on, and throwing them into the ravine across the road.

I bet there was a hundred of them in that hole.

No one ever suspected us; they always jumped to the conclusion that some gas thief had managed to steal their locking cap.

 

I really don't have the kind of winter weather that would freeze a cap up here in NM. In fact, the dirt causes more problems. I have to clean out my locks on a regular basis and then use that greaseless lock lube, especially the spare tire lock. My Audi has a factory locking cap, no problems. Actually, my old Ford dually has 2 locking doors - 1 for each tank, again, no problems.

I remember when the spirals came out for in-line theft prevention, actually they did work fairly well. I owned a filling station in the late 70's thru the mid-80's, saw a lot of locking caps in those days, I never opened them - always asked the car owner to get out and remove them. Full-service, a thing of the past for the most part, the times have changed, and so has the price of fuel.

CD

 

Thats cool and all, but when did it become standard that green means diesel? I know we all seem to associate them together, but its not a standard. I guess if it works then do it!!!

 

Seems pretty standard, except BP has everything Bass Aackwards.....