Wouldn't have mattered really. For the past 5 years, your car's been sitting pretty much like a statue anyway.
If I were me, I'd put the thread in the 1st gen projects section. Not that it's a big whoop either way.

 

like salt in an open wound.

 

I'm here for ya man!!! lmao

 

I had a carb fire in a 1965 Comet Caliente when it was only 6 months old, my 1st brand new car. The insurance wrote it off but I traded it in on on a 1966 Comet Cyclone GT and the insurance gave the money to the dealership. The dealership fixed it but it cost them more than the insurance payout. The interior and paint was not damaged and the only visible fire damage was a little smoke stain on the inside of the windshield from smoke going through the defroster vents.

Looking back it was kind of amusing. 2 guys on motorcycles passed me then turned around to chase me. They said the total underside of the car was flames. A cop stopped and we tried putting it out with a small fire extinguisher but it didn't do any good. All the wiring and rubbers in the front end were burned and the temper had gone out of the hood springs so it wouldn't stay up. The horn was blowing, headlights flashing and the starter started cranking. I had left it in 1st gear so I had to jump in the smoke filled interior and put it into neutral to stop it from moving.

 

Sorry, but I hadda laugh about a car named "Caliente" on fire!

 

just fill it and put a cork in it and move on already LOL

 

lurking

Scooch, what is the likelihood that you can pull one from a junkyard?

 

have you tried heating the o ring up to soften it. lol, not so much as to ruin it though. might try freezin the tube and see if it makes tubing smaller. no nothing on the physics of that.

 

Go to the hardware store and look for an o-ring that's not quite as thick. Maybe the one you're using is too fat to work. For longevity and durability, the red silicone based o-rings are better than the black rubber ones.

 

If you don't mind me adding my $0.02, I just had this problem with my P/G and when I installed me dipstick tube, I put a small amount of assembly lube around the O-ring, and then took a block of wood, with a towel wrapped around it and tapped on the end of the tube.

Then I found the red silicone O-ring, like 69 camaro was referring too, which for some reason I put in another drawer.....

Very nice car by the way.