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Fuel splash and spill?
So when filling up, I always get a little fuel splash, which tends to run down the side of the coach.
So how do you keep this from happening?
I tend to slow the pump down to the lower setting when I get “near” where I think it’s full. But even then on the slowest setting of the pump, it will still splash back and get diesl down the side of the coach.
It has been everything between a couple drips to a good splashback making a small puddle on the ground under the hose. There are some stations that have the rubber round “gaskets” on the pumps which help prevent this from happening (keeps the splash inside the fuel filler door area, but those pumps are far and few between.
Been looking for ones that I could carry with me, wrap around the nozzle and take off when I am done to re-use at the next stop, but all I see are the ones that are meant to slip on and are not meant to really slip off easly.
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I learned to stick the nozzle in the tank filler, make sure it is secure, squeeze the handle and let it flow.
Then I step back and let it click off. I wait for it to gush from the tank after it shuts off, and then I approach the nozzle to remove it from my tank and hang it up.
It does not matter how fast or slow you pump. The two side fill XL coaches are going to puke fuel, and if you are anywhere near it your shoes or pants are going to get diesel soaked. Prevost did not do it right, so as a result you have a choice to live with the issue, or at your expense buy the retrofit kit to stop that from happening and get it installed.
The splashing is not a problem on single side fill XL coaches or XLII coaches. I do not know if any H3 coaches have the issue.
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Hello Jon,
We do not get any splash-back when refueling. On our coach, the diesel filler is above the DEF filler behind the same door. I have never filled on the passenger side so I’m assuming it would not splash-back either. DEF is only on the driver’s side.
Mark
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The XL 40’s never splashed and my 02 H does not either. The XL 45’s and my Libery XLII splashed.
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On my H I discoverd that prevost installed a rubber flap in-line of the fuel fill hoses. Both of mine had turned upside down, so far I have corrected one. check the fuel fill line. best of luck, Matt
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My XL ll does not splash from either side once in a while just a little will push out but never far more just down the side a bit and just a bit not much at all
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EVERY TIME!!! It doesn’t matter slow or fast it clicks off and my XL will vomit fuel everywhere. So while I am fueling up I stuff a wad of paper towels around the nozzle. It catches most of it..
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I’ve never had a problem with diesel squirting out … yet.
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Gotta filler up first Dick…. 😉
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I fill it until it clicks off.
Interesting you have a problem and I don’t … both XLVs … five coaches apart out of North Chicago. Interesting to figure out why sometime.
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I have never had a XL splash back , both where 40 footers
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I don’t think anyone has ever figured it all out. I’ve had 4 XL’s, 40 and 45 and only the 45 puked fuel. My 01 Liberty XLII would puke everytime. My 02 H always pukes a tiny bit, but never gets on the side of the bus because of the way the fill is designed, it runs down a hose to the ground. I always cut the nozzle back to low when approaching full.
Tip of the day – Stay up wind.
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Mine over flows everytime I fill, even after Prevost told me how to make a cage type afair to hold the filler hose flap open. Nothing seems to help.
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Think I may get some of these and carry them with me. Cut a slice into it, so I can quickly slip it over the nozzle before I start pumping. The pumps that have these built in to them, seem to keep the splash inside the fuel filler area and the diesel then runs out the hole, through the tube and onto the ground, without getting all over the side of the coach.
http://www.amazon.com/Apache-Hose-Belting-99000248-Splash/dp/B00MBRJ2P4
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Dick,
It is EVERY time, fueling slow or fast. I have even stood and listened for the fuel to gurgle and as soon as I hear it I shut it down. Then it gushes out….. I just wad up a pile of paper towels around the nozzel and that pretty much stops the problem. I still have to deal with the towels and diesel smell on my hands, not that I think it smells all that bad but Shari hates the smell….
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Prevost does or did offer a kit to address fuel puking. It is not the easiest install, but it does eliminate the problem.
A word of advice to new owners who may think this problem is only going to happen on occasion……..WRONG
You can run the nozzle fast or slow. Slow definitely makes the amount puked out less impressive, but it still shoots out. Where everyone suffers is the eruption of fuel seems to follow the nozzle shut off by a few seconds. You know it will spill, so you stand back. Then the nozzle clicks off and you don’t see any spillage so you reach immediately for the nozzle. At that time the fuel gushes out and you have it all over your shoes, pants and hands.
You can calculate how much fuel it will take and not fill it, but come close. You can use the lowest flow rate possible. You can try anything you want, but sooner or later you are going to get splashed. Sticking your ear down to listen for the fuel is a good way to get a diesel scalp treatment. I finally accepted the burp, went to a slow speed when I was near the end of fueling, and just stood back and let the nozzle click off. Then I waited for the burp. As soon as that occurred I grabbed the nozzle and hung it up. Leaning the coach did no good. I just accepted the fact it was going to push out some fuel, and I learned to position myself so I did not have to walk in it.
Not one of Prevost engineerings best accomplishments.
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