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noise coming from gas tank?
I have been doing some work to the Cobra with some updates etc. I am also trying to button up any loose ends while I have it apart.
Question. Since I have had the car, it seems like even the slightest movement creates a clicking noise coming from the tank area. To my knowledge, I always figured it was the fuel gauge/float moving in the tank. It is most noticeable when I move the car without starting it(i.e. rolling it around the garage)...it will rattle back and forth and eventually go away in a few seconds. Is this normal? (I have even pushed on the car after returning from getting gas and it still clangs away for a second or two). Gas gauge works...just want to make sure this is normal? Thanks, Kramer |
Kramer .... I had the same experience on mine , and called Bob P. about it . He said that there were doors/flaps in the tank to keep the fuel where it was supposed to be and that was what I was hearing when the car was moved ( gas was sloshing around in the tank ) . Also , when the engine is running , you`ll never hear them !
I was a little paronid about it as I was getting the car ready for a track weekend and noises from that area bothered me just a little . Bob |
Thanks Bob - After looking at the tank pics on the ERA website I assumed it was something like this. Good to know it is nothing major.
Kramer |
If you can hear the doors clinking, your exhaust is too quiet. :rolleyes:
(We changed to nylon flaps about a year ago so that there would be no questions like this... I still like the original design because of its Engineering Elegance. :cool: ) |
Maybe Peter left a hidden Morse Code transmitter in there with a message to "send food".
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Get the same thing when the tank is less than full. Always figured it was the flaps in the tank.
DonC |
A little known fact is that ERA's Peter P was Guglielmo Marconi's assistant when he was very young... Little Peter would hold the transmission wires, one in each hand, and act as a loud speaker for the morse code signal as the electrical charges came through the wires... it explains a lot about his current behavior if you know this fact about his early years. Others have electro shock therapy to control their behavior, Peter had his years ago.
Jim |
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