Put A Lid On It

A few months back, a terrible tragedy befell my poor PedoVan.

That's right, the tiny little plastic tether that holds the fuel cap when you're refuelling broke, rendering the whole van literally undriveable. I've been suffering ever since.

Anyway, as is usually the case with this sort of thing, this tiny 3¢ part is only available as a complete subassembly with the fuel cap, and can't be purchased separately.

Honestly this isn't the worst thing as the gasket will eventually dry out and cause an evap error in the OBD computer.

Except that diesels don't have an evap system so actually it wouldn't have done anything at all.

But I think it was still worth getting a new one.

Anyway, before we get the new one installed, we must remove the peg holding the remains of the old tether in place. Luckily, there's a tool for that.

Then we just tether the new fuel cap in place.

And it's out with the old and in with the new.

I'll just have to be careful that the tether doesn't get caught in the hinge again. I'd rather not do this again for another 15 to 20 years.