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I wound up with this fitting simply because in my case there was not enough room between the tank and the hose end to use a banjo bolt.

Either you couldn't tighten the hex on the hose end or you had to shim the bajo fitting down enough to be able to do that.

I would have had to use a stack of gaskets or a very thick one.

I stand corrected on the fitting size, it is a M22-1.75. I believe it came from Pegasus Racing. It is not an Earl's. It is just stored in that Earl's package.

If you intend to race this car or put it on a track, you had better check with a "tech inspector" first.

If I was him, I'd say no way because of the decreased crash worthiness of the connection and the location. Particularly if I knew that a factory Pantera never came this way to begin with.

You are altering the tank in a way that was never tested and in all likeliness increasing the risk of a tank rupture in an "accident".

By it's nature, an accident is unpredictable.

That you won't know until you have one. It's only 20+ gallons on the drivers side. Might be hard for the emergency workers to get to the driver as a result? Maybe not? Who knows?

The other thing is that the fluid bolt, pipe thread fitting or whatever the threaded connection you are putting into the tank will project up above the bottom of the tank bung internally and you won't be able to get all of the fuel out of the tank beyond the top of the projection.



All this doesn't matter to me. I went another way with the setup.