Gas Tank Filler Cap Markings

topellis · Post by **topellis** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 3:12 pm

I had been looking at Cabell Garbee's site about marking my truck. USMC style. I had pics of mine before I painted it but lost them in a computer crash. I thought my truck was marked at the gas cap with something like "warning do no over fill allow for expansion" (below where the filler comes through the sheet metal) I saw on Cabell's site that his truck was marked with something like " contents may be under pressure open slowly" (above the filler) Can someone help me with this? Not sure if USMC marking was different than the other branches or not.

Thanks for any info,
Mark

cuz · Post by **cuz** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 8:45 pm

Local motor pools stenciled those items IAW the local directives. So they varied from unit to unit and from service to service. Three common stencils found at the gas filler were the pressure issue on Cabell's site, the leave expansion space you saw and the max fill rates.

k8icu · Post by **k8icu** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:24 pm

I like it where the unit had one stencil and they used it on everything. So the duce had caution do not fill above this line and so did the M37...

What Cuz said is right. There was no hard fast regulation on marking gas tanks.