martynwhiteley
Active member
The BSS seems a bit lost when it comes to dealing with my Rinker's plastic fuel filler and vent arrangement (see V8 Commissioning thread for more details).
Apart from the joke of having to earth it! The examiner and I couldn't quite work out the venting system.
It not quite possible to view the filler from the inside of the hull, all you can get to see are both the filler and vent pipes disappearing up the coming a few inches short of the final connection. The manual seems to indicate that the vent and fill terminate separately, but there is no evidence of any separate vent.
I suspect that the vent actually tees back into the filler neck, although it is not possible to detect this from the top.
The plastic cap has a spring centre diaphragm as per most cars, and I think cars use a similar venting system.
Does anyone know the actual venting system on my Rinker, which I suspect is typical of US sportscruisers, and ideally how this was dealt with by their BSS inspector?
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Apart from the joke of having to earth it! The examiner and I couldn't quite work out the venting system.
It not quite possible to view the filler from the inside of the hull, all you can get to see are both the filler and vent pipes disappearing up the coming a few inches short of the final connection. The manual seems to indicate that the vent and fill terminate separately, but there is no evidence of any separate vent.
I suspect that the vent actually tees back into the filler neck, although it is not possible to detect this from the top.
The plastic cap has a spring centre diaphragm as per most cars, and I think cars use a similar venting system.
Does anyone know the actual venting system on my Rinker, which I suspect is typical of US sportscruisers, and ideally how this was dealt with by their BSS inspector?
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