Another busy day with the panda, its amazing how much time silly jobs seem to chew up.
Finding tools even though I sort the box weekly has been a pain, juble clips being a 7 or 6mm spanner..... where did that 13 mm socket go, where is the 13mm ring spanner.
Got the tank changed over, underseald the underside above tank and rail. Pulled old exhaust off and got the new one, well almost!
Getting the tank of it a pain,
1) Get car in the air (if your slim with the 4x4 you can actually do it with out)
2) Remove drivers rear wheel arch linor
3)You should now be able to get to the filler neck of the tank, loosen clip and move filler neck out of the way, you will also have to reach right up to the top and loosen the breather/overfill?) jublie clip on the half inch green hose.
3) Remove the bracket that the handbrake cable and rear brake line run though from the passengers side of the fuel tank, 1x10mm bolt, you will need to do this with a spanner as there it no room for a socket. This then comes free and can be moved over out of the way.
4) The tank is supported by 3x 13mm nuts, one at the rear and two at the front of the tank (towards front of car.
Before removing all the bolts get a couple of axial stands to lower the tank on, you don't want it on the floor yet
5) This is the fun part, to lower the tank you will have to have 3 arms, one to lower the tank, another to pull that green hose though the hole in the rear rail - this will pull down from the filler neck area, and another hand to keep the handbrake cables out of the way.
6) Congratulations, the tank is resting, your arms are about ready to pop and you are quite sure you have spiders in your hair. But! no time to rest, on the top of the tank there are two fuel pipes connected, mark and remove, remove the fuel sender wires.
7) Slide the tank out, have a cup of tea and rest with the knollage its harder to put back on than take off!
