"-MIKE-" wrote in message
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Leon wrote:
"-MIKE-" wrote in message
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No, gas tanks do
not always have gasoline in them so being constantly submerged is not
the answer.
I'm guessing the pump was low enough as to always be submerged, even
when the tank was "empty?"

Nope, mentioned that above, of millions each year built this way there
had to be a few thousand that went with out caps and the gas evaporated.


"Had to be?" Sounds pretty speculative. :-)

I was in the automotive service business from 1972 to 1995. I saw it all.