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Offline Gumby

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Flip Top and gas caps
« on: August 03, 2013 - 09:06:59 PM »
Ok, I did the search. Confused me more than ever! Can we get a sticky on this? it seems to be a common question. Seems to be 4 criteria. (1) 70 - 71 Challenger locking (2) 70 - 71 Challenger non-locking (3) 72 - 74 locking and (4) 72 - 74 non- locking. This does not include vented or non - vented. My question is, what works with installing a Flip Top type gas cover with the above? What fits? Stant part numbers would be preferable for ease of ordering and identification. I don't want to pay the $50.00 ebay price and find out it's the wrong thing. (when they can be had for under $10.00, esp) I have a 72 Challenger. Want to install a VENTED, lockable gas cap under a Flip Top cover. My car has been modified - so I don't have a vented gas tank. (charcoal canister eleminated and vent tubes blocked off) Would a Stant BG-771 be appropriate? Obviously I don't care about originality.
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Offline moparmaster

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Re: Flip Top and gas caps
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2013 - 12:33:17 PM »
I'm no expert on this but I bought a flip top cap for my '73 Challenger and the fuel cap that was recommended didn't screw onto the filler neck.  For some reason, I needed a deep cam cap which was available from classic industries.  I don't have a vented tank and the cap is non locking.  I didn't see a locking vented one that would screw onto the filler tube and still be able to fit under the flip top cap. 

Offline 74 challenge

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Re: Flip Top and gas caps
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2013 - 07:43:23 AM »
I'm no expert on this but I bought a flip top cap for my '73 Challenger and the fuel cap that was recommended didn't screw onto the filler neck.  For some reason, I needed a deep cam cap which was available from classic industries.  I don't have a vented tank and the cap is non locking.  I didn't see a locking vented one that would screw onto the filler tube and still be able to fit under the flip top cap.

I asked this awhile ago and never got an answer so I went to the parts store and bout a non vented gas cap but it was also to small for the filler neck. I ended up throwing it in a box and forgetting about it.

I need a vented gas cap, that fits under a flip top gas cap on a 1974 challenger. Worst case senario is ic an drillt he hole myself I just need to know waht part number you used?
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Offline Gumby

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Re: Flip Top and gas caps
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2013 - 07:05:49 PM »
Got my flip top gas cap. NO fasteners. NO instructions. From BE&A. Nothing but the cap and trim ring. Same as the cheap importer off ebay. SAME EXACT CAP AND RING! Save your money! I'm not very happy. That being said, what hardware do I need? How to mount? I am SERIOUSLY dissapinted in BE&A. For $200 bucks, it should have come complete with directions. KMA! (stands for kiss my a$$) I can't begin to explain how dissapointed I am, and I would NOT recommend them to anyone else. SERIOUSLY? a few cents worth of hardware? For $40 bux more than the imported version that is the same thing, to the nuts, off EBAY?
{oo/-------\oo} In '69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own. I don't know when that road turned into the road I'm on. Jackson Browne