Years ago the windshield in the family's 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 developed a leak that kept putting water into the car's kick panel plastic wastebasket making whatever was left in it rot. Guess what my engineer father's fix was? Why of course to drill holes in the wastebasket!
This notch is the same bad engineering and serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever. It's really not rocket science to simply put a note with the new tanks that a vented cap
must be used. I had planned on buying several of these tanks and may ultimately have to do so but I hope this problem is rectified first so that I don't have to have them repaired before they can be installed. I think PackardV8's observation hit the nail on the head:
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The indentation as shown in the pic above was put there for some OTHER reason but NOT for venting. Probably something to do align with alignment procedures during the fab of the tank. OR, someone made a decision that had to business making ANY decision about a gas tank.
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