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Old Mar 5, 2005 | 08:06 AM
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Anyone know if the gas tank on a 72 is vented thru the cap or does one of the top fittings on the gas tank has to be used as a vent?
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Old Mar 5, 2005 | 08:52 AM
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Hey Randy!

You can cap off the vent on the top LH side of the tank and use a vented cap.

The non-vented cap tanks (like on my 73) use a fuel seperator at the top of the tank and a vent line that runs to the charcoal canister inside the bottom of the lf front fender.

Hope this helps!

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how do you get to the part that needs to be capped off?
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Thanks Dave,my car no longer has the charcoal canister and I ran a new aluminum fuel line so I was thnking of plugging off both top fittings.
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