Well, it still leaked. Turned out pulling the fuel tank wasn't that bad. the top portion is all pretty obvious, but to pull the tank out you must disconnect it from the steel fuel line... getting the brass fitting off to separate the fuel line from the tank was a challenge.
My sequence (which worked) was to lift the rear of car, remove right rear wheel, put a jackstand under the right rear suspension and lower the car a bit to effectively raise the right rear suspension. This took the load off the trailing arm which enabled me to remove it... 19mm bolt/nut on each end. putting a droplight down from the right front of the engine helped (not that you can see much). I question the originality of mine since the connector was a 9/16" SAE.
I redid the connection and got her all back together and running in around 2 hours start to finish... wasn't as bad as I expected... 12 hours later not a drop to be found.
it was tough to get a picture of the connection, but using the timer and taking dozens to pics eventually landed one clear shot.
I've also replaced the fuel filter with a Fram G12 clear sealed filter.
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