It's okay, no worries. there's so a few different types of fuel vehicles run off of. so, i just wanted to be sure we were addressing the correct system. Did you have any trouble filling the gas tank? such as the at the gas filler station, did it keep clicking off on you or anything like that? I'm trying to figure out if the gas cap was just on too tight, or if it was excessive vacuum pulling on the gas cap preventing it from coming off. If it was actually that much vacuum in the gas tank then there's a couple possibilities.
There is a valve called the "canister vent valve". This valve opens and closes during different operations of the truck. It is normally open when you turn the truck off. This allows for gas to enter the gas tank and the vapor to escape out of the vent valve and allow room for the new gasoline. If the vent valve fails and stays closed, (they fail all the time FYI) it will be hard to fill the gas tank. The engine computer also closes this vent valve during its self-test of the Evap System. It will close the vent valve and allow engine vacuum to pull on the gas tank, therefore putting the gas tank into a vacuum and a Fuel Tank Pressure sensors watches this vacuum to determine if there is a vapor leak in the entire Fueling system. The Evap system uses another valve called the Purge Valve to pull the vapor into the engine. So, 2 valves at the ends of the fuel system.
So, that's how this system works, sorry for the long description. What I think is happening is the gas cap is supposed to release some of the built-up vacuum especially if the tank was very low it can be hard to get the cap off. So, the Canister Vent valve may not be opening when you turn the truck off, the canister Purge valve may be stuck open, considering how old the truck is, things like this are going to start to fail.
If you can make it to the parts store and have them scan the truck for codes, that might give us some direction. Here is a guide on the Evap system, but I don't think you have a leak, I believe there's an issue with one of these 2 valves. You shut the truck off while getting gas too I hope.
https://www.2carpros.com/articles/evap-system-code-repair
Thursday, February 10th, 2022 AT 5:33 PM