I don't mind spending my day off crawling around under cars. That's part of the fun of owning classics over the years. I do take exception to it when I don't get anything done.
So the swear box is full today after a week an hour here and twenty minutes there faffing about with the wrong fuel tank truing to make the sender unit fit and fabricate a fuel pump bracket that the hand brake cables can pass through this...
...happened.
Not a big deal I can weld on a reducer at some point but as I'm here I may was well see if the new tank fits.
It doesn't. To make the sender unit neck long enough it sticks out too far up top. Hmmmm... :idea:
Cut a hole in the floor?
Chop the end off the sender unit and lower the neck?
I know the bottom of the old tank is fiberglass filler, black silicone and wax oil...
...I'll clean the top and see if it's salvageable.
Hmmmmm.... No.
More black silicone than a weekend at the Torture Garden, more filler than the entire works of Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park put together and more holes the plot lines of every single HBO series ever made.
Still I could use the old tank as a template and start from scratch. It would be cheaper so I might not have to sell my tyres. Just can't afford to have them fitted this month.
