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MGB Found this spring in my gas tank

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As some of you know, I am putting together a 1966 B. Today I was working on the sending unit in the gas tank. I was able to free up the retaining ring and get the sending unit out. When I brought it out of the tank I found this spring caught up in the float. I have never seen a spring in a B gas tank so I do not think it should be there, but I may be wrong. For sure it would not be where it would keep the float from functioning.
Have any of you any idea of where this may have come from?
 

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That looks like a 1960s-vintage fuel hose spring. You found them on the tip of many gas pump hoses back then, to "hook" the hose onto the fuel tank opening.

Another possibility - an "anti siphon" plug. You'd push the spring down into the fuel tank neck, so no one could shove a hose down into the tank to siphon (steal) gas. Maybe this spring was pushed down just a bit too far.

Tom M.
 
My money is on the anti-siphon device. It was a bit too small an O.D. to lodge in the filler neck. The B has a larger I.D. filler neck than most domestics.
 
it is spring after all
 
I don't want to fuel any more bad puns.

+1 on the anti-siphon spring.
 
You found this spring in your gas tank? Now we know why winter has stayed around so long! Let it out, I'm tired of the cold!! :D LoL
 
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