Alumacraft gas filling takes forever!

2012 Alumacraft Competitor 175 takes forever to fill up with gas! 2 differnt times in the last 5 days I went to fill back up and ended up being 20 gallons each time and it would take about a half hour to barely trickle fuel in to fill it up.

Looked at it last night and the fill neck hose looks fine, vent looks fine with no kinks but there is the big carbon filter on the vent line and I am guessing this is restricting the vent from flowing fast enough. Can this be removed and put a piece of vent line in? I know it may cause cancer in California but the boat will never be there….

richie….get that thing fixed so that we can get out fishing!!

haha, its got 35 gallons back in it and ready to rock just a major pain filling it up!

Federal law requires that now. I have noticed it on a few boats and the culprit ends up being some type of grease in the fitting where it connects to the gas tank. They use a little bit of grease so the hose slides on easier, but they use to much and it can sometimes plug the fill line. The bright shinny silver pipe inside the fill cap is the vent line. You can do one of two things. Either take an air compressor with long nozzle to the the silver vent line. Or you can remove the hoses at the tank and check there.

I would be willing to bet thats what it is.

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Federal law requires that now. I have noticed it on a few boats and the culprit ends up being some type of grease in the fitting where it connects to the gas tank. They use a little bit of grease so the hose slides on easier, but they use to much and it can sometimes plug the fill line. The bright shinny silver pipe inside the fill cap is the vent line. You can do one of two things. Either take an air compressor with long nozzle to the the silver vent line. Or you can remove the hoses at the tank and check there.

I would be willing to bet thats what it is.

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Required on a new boat? how about my month old boat that is no longer new???

It vents out the oppisite side of the boat then the fill neck is on… using an air compressor and blowing back into the vent it seems restricted.

If you look inside the fill neck, about 2 inches down into it there should be a bright silver tube looking thing that comes in from the side. That is the part you have to put air into.

Get rid of that alumacraft……..problem solved.

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Get rid of that alumacraft……..problem solved.

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HEY HEY HEY My lund did the same thing. Had more gas on the ground then I got into the tank

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If you look inside the fill neck, about 2 inches down into it there should be a bright silver tube looking thing that comes in from the side. That is the part you have to put air into.

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Thanks Eric. I will pull the corner cover panel off when I get home tonight and check that out and post back. So I take it there is a separate vent for the fueling up and the one with the big filter must be a secondary for just for venting fumes???