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Does anyone know who carries or has a CUCV Fuel cap available for sale? Im adding a seond and third tank and would like to run the same type cap. Thanks.
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CUCV Fuel cap?
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I went the other way, added Civilian lockable caps on civilian filler necks. Diesel is too expensive here what with all our contributions to the state built in to the price not to have them locked up.
This also makes it a wee bit harder for someone to put gasoline in, as the new caps are that great green color that matches the pump handle.
I also don't have a need for the "full sized" filler neck.
And to answer your original inquiry, I know of no sources for the original style filler aside from some of the scrappers that handle CUCV's.
Hope this helps ...
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second the civy filler neck with locking cap, adjustments may need to be made, if it came from a gasser like my 87 suburban the hole is not large enough for the diesel pumps, I had to make mine a little larger.
The best thing about the civy neck is you can stick nozzle in and it locks, on my original cucv neck I had to hold the pump handle in the hole all of the time because it would fall out easy.
The best thing about the civy neck is you can stick nozzle in and it locks, on my original cucv neck I had to hold the pump handle in the hole all of the time because it would fall out easy.
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My M1031 came with a lockable cap...has an entire aluminum service box covering it!
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Thanks everyone. I spent a bunch of ours searching last night. No luck. But for those of you who do have a military cap you can sell it on EBay for a good profit. I'm not restoring a cucv to museum quality so i really don't need the extra large opening. I just thought it would be cool to have matching ones. But now that i see they are pretty rare i decided to let those who really need one get one from you guys. A civi model will work just fine for me. For those of you who pmed me thanks. I believe Stonepicker1 is looking for a mil spec cap that he is missing.
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I'm not looking for one for myself. I was just trying to see if anyone out there had one. There are a few SS members looking for one.
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Roger that. Im just adding a second tank. Someone who is missing a cap needs it more than me.
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I found this web site with inserts for the fuel neck that is anti-siphon: http://www.raneystruckparts.com/kenworth-anti-siphon-device/ It is a bit pricy but it's a start.
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That is true if you get a neck intended for a vehicle running on unleaded gasoline. The nozzles were made intentionally smaller to prevent leaded gasoline from being added to the tanks. The tetra ethyl lead compound will destroy a catalytic converter in short order.
The diesel, to my knowledge, is the same diameter as the leaded gasoline nozzle.