Had Marty of Kenmer make me up a pipe connector between fuel cap and tank last Monday and it's taken until today to refibreglass the hole we made in the boot and fit up the plumbing - great.
Take car for a test spin
(drive only) and fill up tank fully - beautiful.
Get it home and the strong petrol smell is a giveaway but no, Marty's plumbing and the joints aren't cause its the horribly basic tube silver soldered into the tank thats cracked -
double bugga
It's the standard GF tank but made in about 1997 I'm guessing. Has the fuel out, in and vent tubes soldered into the drivers side front area of the tank, into the side of the tank.
Am after suggestions as to what to do now, particularly as the cracked tube is the fuel out feed to the pumps. Presumably this tube, inside the tank, is therefore fabricated to meet the floor of the tank to allow fuel pick up. How can I modify this?
Is my best bet to just cut out all three tubes and replace with properly affixed barbs or similar through a plate somehow reattached to the tank and presumably atop the tank.
And finally how does one do all this with a tank full of petrol vapour, and probably a small residual of petrol? I don't feel like blowing myself up just yet.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as it's a show stopper until I can refit the tank to the car - blast!
Fuel tank suggestions..........
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