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Originally posted by jack deryke:
There are only two (2) hoses goimg anywhere from the gas tank. Depending on the year of your Pantera, the fuel-out line is either from a welded boss on the edge of the tank-top, using a banjo bolt ('71-early '73s), or from a line built into the sending unit (late '73-up). The fuel-out line goes directly to the fuel pump. There's also a breather hose that attaches to a bubble-thingy on the tank-top (or to an anti-roll-over valve if its a late car) & goes to the charcoal cannister on the rt side of the engine bay. Problem with bulkhead fittings attached directly to the tank top is, the metal is extemely thin & may fatigue-crack with time. As yet there is NOT another useable sender except the early and late Pantera types (at $400 each!) but Marino Perna of Pantera East just announced that his company may be fabricating replacements for the late type sender with larger fuel-out lines for higher horsepower engines, at a much lower cost.

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I'm going to remove the existing sending unit. It does not have any kind of fuel pick, only the three leads. That's why someone drilled a new hole with a tube for the pickup. No one has a fitting that will seal in the hole. It was soldered together and to fabricate another would be tough. I'm going to remove the sending unit to figure out what's up. The gas gauge doesn't work anyway. I heard the quarter window comes out. Where do you push it out and how hard. I'd hate to break it.