RE: [doc] fuel tank rebuild help!!

["Richard" <dickyh11@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The original fuel senders were made from washing up liquid bottles and
sticky-back plastic, the rattle may be 'normal' but it's unlikely to be
functional if the rest of your fuel gear was in such a state...

What condition was your tank in? If you had sludgy tar in the bottom, I
wouldn't at all recommend running anything around your pipes until you
have disconnected the fuel metering head. Pumping that gunge into it
could have 400quid consequences!! And no DON?T take it to bits!!

You should disconnect the fuel line from your metering head, and run
some fuel through into a container. Then change the fuel filter. Then
reconnect the fuel line and run fuel through with the return line at the
tank end into a container - if that makes sense.

As far as I'm aware the fuel pickup filter was fitted to all models, it
was the baffle base that didn't appear until later on.

I gave up on the fuel line bolts in the end. I just cut off the pipe
from the barbed connector and replaced the rubber hose with standard
fuel hose. You absolutely MUST use jubilee clips/pipe clips if you do
this though no matter how tight you think the fit is, otherwise they'll
blow off under pressure!

The pipe you mention is about 3/4" diameter, and probably a bit squashed
flat. It's the drain for the air con, it doesn't go anywhere - just
dribbles along the side of the tank

Rich H
DOC 365 VIN 1274

> 
> 
> The only bit that seems serviceable is the wire frame clipped to
> bootom of tank.
> 
> Pump is in bits. sender rattles but maybe usable (is the rattle
> normal?)
> 
> i understand the filter in the tank at the bottom was not on early
> cars (vin 1621).
> 
> By the way, did you mange to undo the bolts from rubber fuel line to
> metal fuel line?
> At the moment am ordring a new pump, boot etc. already have new
> filter.
> am then going to pump injection cleaner through system, hoping to
> keep accumulator and not take apart fuel distributer as i gather they
> do not go back together?.
> 
> Another question!. There is a third pipe which runs along chassis
> next to main fuel lines near tank. just stops. is this an overflow
> for something? looks cut clean and does not seem as if it connects to
> anything.
> 
> Car supplier already had removed pump prior to shipping! so don't
> know what else he moved/cut!.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Steve
> 
> 



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