just buy another one
Gas cap, seat lock, key switch 27048 = $300 ~ Comes as a $et.
Key switch [only] 27005 = $130.00 ~ shows no seat lock or that gas cap icon looking think in the box is how you buy a gas cap for 3 bills.
Gallon of costco vinegar = $3.00
1 gulp size cup and drop the gas cap in it. Pour .50 cents into the cup to submerge the 'what have you got to lose but 3 bills,' you take that plastic spoon and swishakenough times to remove the bubbles out of the chamber so everything has to fill up with that acid, so more like shake the shit out of it so the fresh acid takes away what was in there in the shake = Arm Pump is when the cap is ready to come out of the solution or insert key and test.
Get the hose from outside and now spray the shit out of it, force water in there. I have a 1.5v batter explode in some plastic sweater/cloth shaving machine. I slide the cover off, see this white shit on the battery cover, watch the acid bubble it off as I drop it in a plastic cup filled with vinny. The bubbles stopped within minutes, I pull it out, brand spanking new it looked.
I'm not about to keep that much cap-time in the vinny with any 0ring or rubber attached to it. I do not think the rubber can be removed? My tank is boxed up so I can't tell. The point is, very little swell happens, but it is still a tolerance where I no longer dip carburetor rubber tipped needle and seat type needles into the vinny and clean it. Ask me how I know the rubber tip no longer fits.
Knowing that action, I'm jamming in a straw into key flapper so I can bubble the fluid into the springs, push holes, cylinder shaft, so as to get that acid working sooner. So the time starts now once the dip happens. Only a key turn knows for sure when to pull it from the acid. It's all outside work so that hose is there and I finish off with gunk brand carb clean and more water when the gunk chemically pulls that white crap off the springs. Ask me how I know about using chemical cleaners and gunk seemed to wash away the gummy gone trick.
I finalize the internal clean with compressed air or brake clean and air dry in the sun. I then push the flap over, drop sewing machine oil into the tumbler assembly, key fob it a few times and if those few minutes of time and trouble kept $300 towards tires... D'UH!
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