I hate EVAP systems and capless filler necks...

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To hell with whoever thought up this crap...

Spent my day chasing a "very small" EVAP leak after fixing a "small" leak last weekend that required pulling the intake on my '11 Expo to get to it. Replaced the purge valve today when I found the solenoid wouldn't hold vacuum. There's $120 spent on nothing... Then on top of that I checked the miracle capless filler Ford's brilliant engineers came up with and found the welds on the cartridge had all failed and none of it was sealing properly. Good luck finding that part... Thank goodness for epoxy! I put the full JoCo on that bad boy and then epoxied it into the neck for good measure so it can't break again.

Think I'm gonna find an '08 filler with a cap and replace the crappy capless one...
 
To hell with whoever thought up this crap...

Spent my day chasing a "very small" EVAP leak after fixing a "small" leak last weekend that required pulling the intake on my '11 Expo to get to it. Replaced the purge valve today when I found the solenoid wouldn't hold vacuum. There's $120 spent on nothing... Then on top of that I checked the miracle capless filler Ford's brilliant engineers came up with and found the welds on the cartridge had all failed and none of it was sealing properly. Good luck finding that part... Thank goodness for epoxy! I put the full JoCo on that bad boy and then epoxied it into the neck for good measure so it can't break again.

Think I'm gonna find an '08 filler with a cap and replace the crappy capless one...
As an owner of 3 Ford's this is a frightening post.
Thanks for the knowledge though. I never would have thought that filler failure was possible. Did you get a check engine light? Was there a code that made sense or did it take a lot of sleuthing yup figure out?
 
The "full JoCo" sounds like you meant business. I'm with @Bailey Boat, this has me triggered, too.
 
I hate the capless filler on my ‘10 Ford. The gas pump will click *full* even slow filling and it’ll blow a few ounces of gas out under the car about half the time
 
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