Locking gas cap

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Byron Gray

Byron Gray

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When I got my car it came with the locking gas cap but they didnt have the key for it. It has a fuel cell in the trunk so I didnt think much about it. But I want it off and put a stock looking cap on it now. Dose any one have any tricks on ways to break the lock to get the cap off?
 
assuming the call is not metal(?) and youve not watched 3hrs of youtube lock picking vids..lol

you can normally slowly drill just the center key hole slot out, via a series of small holes without going all the way thru the cap or generating too much heat. inners are mostly brass/aluminum, sometimes copper or stainless, depending on quality of cap.
Eitherway, this will remove some or all of the key tumblers, allowing you to then crank/pick via flathead screwdriver (or similar) the inners around and unlock it.
If the cell still has fuel in it and hasnt aired out for a good while, Id be extra careful or drain it via the fuel line and possibly back fill with water (aka: ubber safe method, similar to how they weld on steel fuel tanks). any tiny traces of fuel left inside THEN wouldnt be too spontanious, but built up vapors (if any) certainly are not a good mix with a hot drill bit/drilled metal and in a cell can take a long time to actually disapate on their own, unless evacuated.
 
I like to drill as mentioned above. I aim at drilling where the teeth of the key are so as said it will turn with a screw driver.
 
Most automotive tool companies make a master key for locking gas caps. It was similar to the one pictured below. We used it alot during the gas crisis, It worked great. Only cost a few bucks. I would ask any "old school" mechanic, they should have one.
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I've seen the drill method a lot and the fill tube is not connected to the fuel cell and the original gas tank is gone it's more for an appearance thing.
 
Joey4speed said:
Most automotive tool companies make a master key for locking gas caps. It was similar to the one pictured below. We used it alot during the gas crisis, It worked
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That was you siphoning my tank back then? I always wondered how you did it ! lol
 
Lol.
I helped out in a gas station, and alot of people locked the brand new Stant gas caps and couldn't work the keys. We also had to open them up when they got towed in with no gas.
We had the Odd/Even plate numbers for gas rationing and lines went on forever. Crazy times.
 
Too funny. I worked at Cullen Mall shell in Corpus Christy pumping gas with odd / even plates and having to disguise my Boston accent to keep the lines moving as everybody was so friendly and would start a conversation about it . The good old days.
 
Lol, too funny.
In NY, they weren't quite as friendly. We had people getting shot over cutting the line.
 
My buddy was good at pressing his thumb right on the lock mechanism on the caps and you can twist them off.
 
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