[alfa] Re: Re: Filling up the Milano

[Nicky Avery <nicky@xxxxxxxxx>]

Will,

> In the seven years we've had our '87 Gold, the only times I've ever been
> able to see much more than 3/4 on the gas guage was when the pump was a
> painfully slow one.
exactly our experience in the 5 or 6 years we owned ours

> It also seems not to have any connection with the
> vapor-recovery stuff either, since until 2000 I was often gassing up in
> localities with no such requirements, usually with plain old unjacketed
> nozzles.
I found it was more difficult to fill the tank in hot weather but did
not have any opportunity to try with an unjacketed nozzle over time.

> It'd still click off several gallons shy of full, unless I let
> it sort of ooze in...and then once in a while it'd overflow.
I could only add several more galls. rarely and associated it with the
hottest weather otherwise I found that it was normally less than 1
gallon and, yes, occasionally I would get a surprise gas overflow.

YMMV ....

Nicky
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