I have a 1999 VS Speedster Kirk Duncan model. Arrived Easter Monday 1999 on Navajo Reservation. Driven all over. Got gas at on and off Rez Gas stations forever....Till Today. Got gas frequently on VS, 71 Bug, Wife's 2020 Golf and Daughters 97 Saab. No issues. Today no gas. Went through the usual c sign on at gas up. It said start filling. Now to preserve my pristine Frunk Carpet , I insert the nozzel. Put just the tip in and gas it up. This way I can totally fill the tank w/o spillage , which results in the Car stinking up the ladies Garage with the odor of Gas. This in turn turn the situation into a nuclear melt down. Today no gas, Nada. Shell, Suinday Dawn worker comes out and gives me the Corvair Ralph Nader Speach. There's a NEW, little ring along the base of the nozzel at the rubber pad cushion. This must be pressed hard to the Tank Lip to allow gas to flow. I do soo, get a squirt of gas and Pump shuts down. II try this multi times. still a spurt and then no gas. For those scientists her 0.001 gal is a spurt on the meter. I try 86, 88, 90 Gas. I try a different pump. I go to 3 more, different gas stations. I even turn the gas nozzel tip in various directions in the tank, o no avail. Then a light flicker on in my head. The nozzel must have some sort of back flow switch off in the tip. It feels gas it shuts off ump. So i sit there with my revolutionary war musket squirt, stop wait, reinsert, squirt, repeat. The issue is the tank has little depth and hence trips the shut off switch. I've neve experienced this befoe, ether the Stab the tank ring switch, or I can't play Fire hose the tank. Anybody else out there seen that or do I go LeMans Race fill from gas cans sitting on the its Lip?
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