Abstract: An automotive vehicle has a body with an external surface, a fuel tank filler pipe, and a fuel tank cap assembly comprising a plug sealingly engageable with the fuel tank filler pipe by insertion into the filler pipe to a rotatively fast sealing position, a cover carried with the plug that substantially blends with the body external surface when the plug is in the sealing position, and a latch mechanism carried with the fuel tank cap assembly operable without rotation of the cover to permit the assembly to move from the sealing position to a release position displaced from the body external surface, the latch mechanism also being operable in the release position through rotation of the cover to permit the assembly to move from the release position to a free position disengaged from the filler pipe.

Abstract: A tool for removing a retaining cap from a hose clamp has a handle to which is attached a retaining cap nest having a cap receiving portion for receiving the capped ears of the hose clamp, an opening in an end of the receiving portion for accepting an uncapped portion of the capped ears, and a pair of lands, one on either side of the opening, for pushing against the legs of the cap during removal from the ears. In one embodiment, the nest has a pair of symmetrically shaped half-sections attached to the jaws of a locking pliers type tool which are placed around the capped ears. When the handles of the tool are squeezed together, a nest is formed capable of retaining the cap after removal from the ears. A preferred embodiment has a handle with a hollow cylindrical jacket attached thereto surrounding a pneumatically operated rod to which is affixed a unitary nest. When in an extended position, the nest can be positioned to grasp the hose clamp retaining cap in the receiving portion.