Anyone else see the 2010/11 gas cap gasket shrink?

[rgranger]

mine fell out and wouldn't go back on. I ordered a new cap from Hall's and the old gasket is maybe 10% smaller than the new one. I am assuming that the ethanol in our fuel is shrinking them up? More EPA fail?

[MJC]

Mine did the same thing, and after a few months your new cap and gasket will have the same problem. GASGAS has a problem with their rubber supplier. To fix the problem I just made my own gasket out of and old tire tube. It took less than 10 min and fixed the problem.

[gasgasman]

Run out to your Ford diesel truck and take the gasket out of the radiator cap on the degas bottle.

Fits like a champ.

[jhendr3702]

Originally Posted by gasgasman

Run out to your Ford diesel truck and take the gasket out of the radiator degas bottle.

Fits like a champ.

hmmmmmm.... i would think any self respecting gasgas would reject any ford part......

jk... sorry .. could not resist...

[gasgasman]

'bout the only thing useful off the 6.0L diesel.

[bchatt]

Heaps of similar threads on this forum. my 07 did it after about 6 months. We don't have any kind of blended fuel here in NZ. I cut a new gasket out of some epoxy/cork gasket material and it's been fine. Kinda annoying that GG have done nothing about this - maybe the word is not getting back to the factory. Perhaps Clay can pass on this kind of info...

[rgranger]

Originally Posted by gasgasman

Run out to your Ford diesel truck and take the gasket out of the radiator cap on the degas bottle.

Fits like a champ.

Dang, if only I knew someone that worked at FORD! If you could put that in plane English, I would go get one tomorrow! WTF is a degas bottle? Can you buy just the gasket, G?

[Zeal]

I replaced my stock gas cap with a billet red one from Gasgas. It has a very large rubber seal and I expect it will last a long time.

[rgranger]

Zeal, it isn't the cap, it is the rubber gasket...

[gasgasman]

We can't get those in The Land of The Free.