quote:Originally posted by accobra:
Doug that must be on the early tanks like Dave said ... mine is built into the pick up assembly.
I agree if you have the tank out now would be the time to tap the drain plug and take the fuel off the bottom of the tank ... I experienced the location of the bottom outlet to be some what problematic in mounting the prefilter, pump, and hoses ... with the thought of it getting ripped off the bottom should something from the road bounce up ... just a thought.
Ron
No, tank is still in. Simplest fix is to go to the combined sender/pickup assembly.
I had the pickup adapted to the drain plug on the tank. The thing was much too low to run that way. Plugged it back up.
The tank is in good shape. It was sloshed and teflon coated years ago but the original tube has got to be steel and as such there is a time clock ticking on it regardless of what anyone does.
I was just commenting on the size of the tube ID. It is so small I couldn't possibly insert an inner liner in it. ConEd does this now instead of digging up the street to put in new gas lines.
They have a specially formulated plastic/teflon liner that first they hone the inside of the existing black iron gas pipe, then slide the plastic tube through.
You can see by the responses here that most have no idea what I am talking about, i.e., they have never looked at the tank pickup tube.
There is no way you could pump enough fuel through this to go seriously racing with this car. Must be one of the reasons the Gp4 cars have a different fuel tank set up with smaller tanks on each side of the car?
The existing pick up would be fine for a fuel return for FI. I don't see where anyone would want to go to an in tank electric fuel pump either since you would have to modify the combined pick up/sender assembly to that and that is unique to the car. That's a "leave it alone" item.