joz8968

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My petrol flap doesn't engage with the little white release rod when you close the flap shut.

It looks like the rod isn't protruding enough, so doesn't actually meet up with the flap's locking tang. Is there any way of fixing it?

The Rig

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with the petrol flap open, try the cable a few times manually,via the tag from inside the car, get some pliers on the white tang and try nd pull it out a bit or manipulate the petrol flaps tang over a bit to grip onto the white spring bit

joz8968

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Sure. I'll try all that tomorrow...

Cheers.

joz8968

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I just have a white cylindrical bit, about 10mm long that protrudes out from the black cable. Is this normal? Is this the movable "rod" (that engages with the flap tang's hole), or should there be something else attached to its end, that's missing?

The Rig

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nope,thats all ya get !

A Guinea pig`s nipple as i call it

joz8968

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Hoot!

The nipple moves in and out on the in-car lever fine - just don't engage. If I bend the tang towards it a bit, the flap won't shut flush and engage.

Looks like I'm gonna have to bend that tang around so that it creates a curved corner, so as to smoothly engage with the nipple and push it back in, before springing back out again and engaging into the tang's hole...

The Rig

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hmmm,weird,for it to just happen ?

joz8968

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lol, no Rig, it's my new car!

I replaced the old 93 WRX with a white STi 5 - and very nice she is too... Apart, that is, from the flap release (oo-er).

The Rig

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Ah right.

Fair play on the upgrade :-)

Maybe the white part that the cable operates that goes into the tang has been shortened, slightly broke at some point maybe ??

joz8968

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I'll take a photo for you to see. (I can't compare, because my old car's one worked fine, so I didn't bother checking the mechanism out)...

joz8968

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Rig - or anyone - can you help?:-

Went to see Olly at RCM and he looked at it and said there's a spring missing(?). Now I don't know how the mechanism works as such, so do you know what he's on about/how this spring fits with the rest of the mechanism, etc.?

alcazar

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Missing? As in removed? How difficult is it to get in bits? Breakers would have a spring, or maybe dealer for pennies if you can get it into bits.

joz8968

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Either removed - but more likely fallen off

I'm sure getting it back together with a new spring, etc. ain't a problem.

MY problem is that I don't know how/where the spring fits. I need it to be explained to me, etc...

The Rig

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thing is, even if a spring were missing, can you pull the white tab out further than it currently is (as if a spring were behind it ?)

if not, im doubting thats the problem,but starnger things do happen,just seems weird a person would remove such a thing ??

joz8968

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That white nipple is defo spring loaded. It flies back out under tension, when you let go (obviously after first pushing it in). It defo works via the in-car lever too.

Is there supposed to be another spring (based on what Olly said), then?

The Rig

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Pic of my Tang,oo eer



pic of my flap,oo err some more



is yours similair ?

there is a spring behind the white tang in pic 1,but very bizarre scenario for someone to remove it ,but not unlikely i guess

joz8968

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Ahhh, "spring behind white tang". Now I'm getting somewhere - this must be what's missing!

Can you get a camera phone in behind the tang to take a photo of how that spring attaches to the tang and flap etc.?

(Nipple is the same )

The Rig

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nah,to get behind it id have to remove alot of bits

if that white tang springs back out when you push it in with your finger,thats how mine works

joz8968

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Right, looks like I have a different (wrong!), unhinged (how apt! ) tang to my flap!:-





This is obviously why I can't get the nipple to recede - as I haven't got the spring-loaded, hinged tang to my particular flap! Therefore looks like the wrong type of flap is fitted! But How come though?!

The Rig

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yup,that`ll be your problem !

it needs to have the curve as on mine to push the white tang back when you push the fuel flap in

but as you say, how come, surely all classic fuel flaps are the same, guess not ??!?!?

at least we got there in the end ha ha !!

joz8968

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So it looks like it's eBay time! (I'll have to to politely ask the seller to show me a pic of the lever mechanism...........)

Cheers Rig - thanks for investing time in this. I would have posted a pic earlier on, but at the time didn't realise the mechanism COULD differ!

Nice one

The Rig

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no problems

good luck !

Rick2017

So should the petrol flap have a spring?.Does anyone have a picture of where it lives please mine is doing the same thing

joz8968

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There's a module that fits onto the fuel door's metal tang. It's a light grey plastic thing with a metal spring thing.

It's a OEM part from Subaru.

Rick2017

Have you got a picture of yours please

joz8968

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OEM part no. 57651FA040

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=57...=2560&bih=1366











ICP may have it. I ordered mine from Unity (Subaru) Leicester.

Rick2017

Is that all it is that's causing all the bother

joz8968

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Totally!

But like you, because it wasn't there, how were we to know!

It was only after a while, that I actually found out about that extra part of the fuel door set-up!

Rick2017

****e isn't it. I'm going round replacing everything

joz8968

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Holy thread revival!...

Rick, did you get the bit in the end?!