Sunday, April 25, 2010

Fuel Tank

I pulled the fuel tank down yesterday to look for a leak. The car has always seemed to have a fuel smell inside. It ended up that at some point in the past a sub-woofer was mounted to the back deck with screws that went into the gas tank. When I got the car, I cleaned out everything that I didn't like, to include the sub mounts. I can remember that those screws were about 2 and a half inches long. So anyway I fixed the holes, checked all the lines and reinstalled the tank. I got a great deal on a 044 pump so I went with it instead of the HV pump that I discussed earlier. When taking the old pump off the hose clamp that connects the tank line to the pump just fell off. It was completely consumed by corrosion.... glad I found that! Now I am missing a piece of plumbing though, because the 044 doesn't have the same type of outlet port that the stock and HV pumps do. That's alright as I needed to order a new filter, new tank pick up, and compression fittings to convert the hard lines to AN lines up front. I'm still waiting for the new fuel rail to become available from EFI Express. That should be the last piece of the fuel system to acquire and then I can check that one off of the to-do list. Well I think that I will head back to the garage and find some more trouble to get into, maybe some wiring.

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