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    7/19/2024 11:44 AM  #1

    Daze
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    From: Kalispell MT
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    Anybody got a trick for removing and old school locking gas cap C10

    My Uncle's square body chevy has two stuck locking gas caps.  I haven't actually looked at the caps... been a little laid up  but it sounds to me like the internal mechnisem is frozen so I don't even know if drilling it out will work.  Got any other techniques to pull one of these caps without out damaging the filler neck, don't care about saving the cap.

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    7/19/2024 12:14 PM  #2

    6sally6
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    Re: Anybody got a trick for removing and old school locking gas cap C10

    First thought was 'break-out-the-angle-grinder' BUTT......gas fumes/gas tank nearby makes me re-think that thought...
    Any way to get on it with some type of spanner wrench ?
    Maybe hammer & chisel.(get primitive with it ! )
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    7/19/2024 1:44 PM  #3

    Greg B
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    Re: Anybody got a trick for removing and old school locking gas cap C10

    The answer is on youtube.   I had to remove one, I knocked the center locking mechanism out, and it losened it up enough it just turned out, so I didn't have to do step two.   It's very easy to bypass them.

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    7/19/2024 1:46 PM  #4

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    Re: Anybody got a trick for removing and old school locking gas cap C10

    If they are the kind that the outer "cap" rotates freely until the key is turned, just drill a hole a little off center deep enough to go into the mechanism, put a rod in it and turn.

     

     

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