Taking ages to fill up!

[chris862]

Recently replaced the fuel tank on my nova as the old one had a rusty hole in it, anyway I know novas are not the quickest at filling at the pump, but I'm having real trouble now, takes 5 minutes to get a Tenner in! just keep filling up the neck and taking ages to do down! been filling up petrol cans and filling it up when I get home lol

Filler neck seems clear, ball thing in the tank seems to be working, any ideas?

Cheers
Chris

[millworm]

Breather blocked?

[Alex J]

mine dose the same for some reason!

[Mike]

Breather pipe kinked ;) happens virtually all the time when refitting a Nova tank.

[blue_peg_16v]

Will be the breather pipe as said

[marc69]

I had this with mine, as everyone says, it was the breather pipe at the filler.

[chris862]

Cheers all! will check the breather again as I did replace it with a piece quite long that bends around lol

do you think this might be affecting it also:

As you can see the breather bit at the tank end on the replacement tank was broken!
http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab168/chrisyeg/noova/20130915_175953_zps0aadb854.jpg

so we pushed in a piece of steel pipe to try fix it, but as its a reduced size bore, do you think it might be causing the problem?
http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab168/chrisyeg/noova/IMG_0588_zps8a22b9a5.jpg

Also who designs a fuel tank that fills from the bottom! :roll:

[deneil_gsi2000]

They fill from the bottom so the air is forced out the breather. Otherwise the air will be forced up the filler neck.

[Novasport]

mine dose the same for some reason!


Your breather pipe is probably full of Sika-Flex and cable tied up lol

[novalovingned]

See what happens when you bodge things lol you'll have to come up with a better solution than that :)

[Nobby]

yeah defo breather kinked mine did the same and ended up forcing fuel out of the filler cap as i was driving! Sorted the kink with some longer pipe and never done it since