Guess who's overthinking something again.

[MikeF]

TIme for a new car.

[Speedy]

MikeF wrote:
TIme for a new car.

This ^. LOL.

[Buzz]

hookers & booze, and use it for B&W proofing...

[OWC Jamie]

5 bucks or so at autozone

[haikuman]

You could also use a slice of wooden doweling.
Glue the doweling into the original home of the tether.
Attach/screw davesters Eye Screw into the doweling.
Next attach the fishing swivel to the eye and then attach
your new tether to the swivel.

wala *(:>*

[Racer X]

Nobody has asked him if it is Threaded, or a 1/4 turn Bayonet style. Mine is a 1/4 turn Bayonet, and anything attached to it would work fine. Maybe he isn't over thinking it because he doesn't need to.

[SteveO]

Use an old DIN 8 cable.

[wurm]

Lots of good input. Thanks.

I did think about the fact that not being on center will impact how well it turns without tangling. For that reason, I'm liking the small eye-hook in the center option. However, I'm not sure if that center is solid plastic or if there's some hidden venting system going on under the surface, so I'm a little hesitant to just start drilling down from the top.

I like the idea of the pull-chain as the material for the tether. I'm also thinking maybe some old phone cord or speaker wire, and yes, heavy monofilament weed hacker/fishing line would work.

My research (Subaru forums) has shown that that Universal tether thing won't work on this cap.

It's a threaded cap...turn 'til it clicks, but you can keep turning. (see pic)


I also thought of eliminating the tether altogether and using velcro on the top of the cap and inside the fuel door as a way of sticking it somewhere while fueling. Or maybe gluing a couple of very small neodymium magnets in the recesses on either side of the center of the top of the cap.

[DP]

Wow! 28 responses over a gas cap...

[PeterB]

Was I the only one who thought of this?:

http://static.bhphoto.com/images/images5...834774.jpg

Cheap and easily replaceable, should it become necessary to do so.