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Filling my JD tank with diesel. While the tank is filling I am checking the radiator, Then diesel is poring all over the ground under the tractor. The first thing that comes to mind, is something is broke. Nothing broke my pump didn't shut off. I have had this tank with a 12 v pump a few years now. It sure makes filling my tank easy. I would sometimes start the pump and go off to get something. Now I can never trust the filler valve to shut off. It always amazes me how these thing shut off. Dad had a gravity feed tank, He would put a rock under the lever, and not go too far away. One evening we were just starting
to eat dinner, all of sudden dad gets up from the table and fly's out the door. He forgot to shut off the gas from the tank to his truck. I'll bet some of you have a few tank over flow stories. Stan

mine is pretty much the same as yours. get to checking stuff and it dont shut off. had that happen a few times but caught it fast. i just had a small captain valdez spill.

I have an extra Diesel tank on my pickup that feeds into the main tank with an electric fuel pump. I put it on a timer, (a spring driven type non electric) because I knew sooner or later I would be driving along and forget to turn the pump off. Working great so far.

I was at a convenience store a while back and started filling up my truck and a guy pulled up across from me and started his gas and went in the store. After a few minutes his gas started running over so I stepped over there and cut it off for him then finished filling up my truck and left. He was still in the store talking

Happened last Friday. Superintendent I have been working for the last couple weeks was filling up our Vermeer road cut saw at work while he was talking to me. Using HIS transport tank on his pickup that hes had for a few years. With him not paying attention the tank on the equipment overfills and spills all over the road at a busy intersection. He says. its never done that before, it always shuts off ! I ask him if they just replaced the nozzle and he says no. Well the darn thing NEVER shut off before automatically because it is one that doesnt ! He swore up and down it used to shut off on its own. I knew better and kept my mouth shut !

I saw a guy from Connecticut (the folks who assume that the universe revolves around them) at a self-service gas pump in New York fill his Volvo wagon (which they all drove at that time) and then drive off with the nozzle still in his gas port. Those pumps have a break-away connection that worked without a fault. Not a drop of gasoline was spilled. The guy with the Volvo noticed he had a long piece of hose dragging and returned to the station and acted like ho-hum, so what?

I have a overhead gravity flow fuel tank for my Diesel fuel. I have a custom made hunk of wood to hold the nozzle open. My self imposed rule is I stand there while fueling when using it.

My dad owned a small self serve gas station when I was growing up.

Seen lots of overflows. The automatic nozzles would malfunction and fail to shut off, especially in hot weather for dome reason. Dad would warn me not to get too far away and keep an eye on it.

But the worst spill was the gas delivery truck. He was getting near retirement, probably a few years beyond. There was no meter on the truck. He would measure the level in the tank, calculate about how much was on the truck, and how long it would take to fill the tank or if it would hold it all.

One time I was in the garage and started smelling gas really strong. Looked out and the tank had filled and the hose had blown out of the filler and was laying on the ground gushing a 4 stream!

The driver was in the office deep into a BS session, no idea what was happening! I didn't know how to stop it and wasn't real crazy about wading into a 6 deep pool of gasoline!

I started screaming and running to the office, he heard me and waddled out to turn it off.

The fumes in the garage were beyond the explosive level. There was a swamp cooler right there pulling the vapors in. I didn't dare unplug it. Spent the next couple days working outside, just in case...

Nothing came of it, no explosion, it just soaked in and dried up over a few days, but it sure did stink!

That wasn't the only time it happened but the other overflows were at the side tanks, further away from the buildings.

Sure couldn't get away with that now!

My friends mother filled her car and turned off the pump and hung up the hose Problem was the hose was hooked around the bumper. It pulled the pump off its mounting

I remember the Valdez spill. That was quite a spill all right. Stan

A while back I was at a gas station when an older lady approached me and told me her tank had overflowed and she was concerned about what to do. It wasn't a huge spill and would evaporate shortly. I told her I'd move her car for her, since she was worried it would go up in a ball of flame if she started it. She agreed, but first had to get her dog out of the car; apparently it was OK for me to risk MY life, but not her dog's! Needless to say nothing happened and she drove away.

My worst experience with an overflow was refueling our 5010 when I was a teenager. I was used to filling it from a gravity tank, but my dad also had a bulk truck he used for his construction business. I was used to greasing the tractor while waiting for the gravity tank to fill, so one day I was filling the tractor from the bulk truck and did the same. Unfortunately, the nozzle on the bulk truck didn't have an automatic shutoff, and while I was away it started overflowing and I ran to shut it off. By the time I got it shut off I was soaked! (I should have shut it off at the truck, but didn't have time to think.) I was out in the middle of nowhere with no access to soap and water (other than my drinking water), let alone a change of clothes, so I spent the rest of the day working the summer fallow in my diesel-soaked clothes and an open cab. I was a mess at the end of that day.

I did the same thing the other day only mine isnt automatic shutoff I just got busy and forget next thing I know fuel was going everywhere

Ha! Our diesel fuel pump was installed on the farm when I was a teen-ager. None of these new fangled automatic nozzles or such. The price of fuel on the pump is 33.9 cents.

The captain of the Valdez went to school with my brother at the maritime academy in NY