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I was looking at this BT7 on eBay and noted the apparent accessory fuel fill access to the gas tank inside the boot yet the car also has the standard filler neck on the tank with the usual outside cap. Just curious what's the deal /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
Auction is item number 4643244518
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I suppose that at some point in time, he installed a non-Healey gas tank. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonono.gif
 
I can't get all his pictures to download. I would like to see the engine. Regardless, I asked the seller what the deal is with the gas tank. If there is a reply I will post it here.

100-4 has an internal filler neck.

Bruce
 
Hi Bruce, the engine compartment was not included in the photos. I am guessing that the second fuel tube is an expansion chamber to prevent fuel overflow from the main filler tube.I have seen many a paint job trashed when the fuel expands due to heat and runs down the back of the shroud. He may be sharing the expanded fuel between the two locations. Just a guess,---Keoke
 
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Fake tank fer running moonshine!

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hmm, moonshine vote, protect paint vote, hmmm, let me see, hmmm.... gotta be the moonshine /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif
 
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Hi Bruce, the engine compartment was not included in the photos. Keoke

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I said it before but anyone who says a 100% restoration, the first place I look at is the engine compartment which has to be clean enough to eat from and then I go from there. Otherwise it is just a car that was cleaned up nicely and perhaps painted. Not much more.

I am surprised that with the number of pictures posted, many of which look like duplicates, there is no engine picture.
Oh well. I'm not buying it anyhow...

Bruce
 
Heavily processed pictures too (highly saturated color, unsharp mask, etc.) which make the colors look odd to me.

Instead of an "expansion" tube, wouldn't it be better to tap a hole into the filler tube near the top and discretely run a flex tube to the frame somewhere? Let the gas rise to almost the cap and then overflow onto the street.
 
Blue Ridge,
Didn't I hear somewhere that all of us had to start using white lightning in our gas ? Isn't that what the lightning bolt on the back of our cars symbolizes ? Perhaps this guy does his own custom " blending ". One for the car, one for me, etc.
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Heavily processed pictures too (highly saturated color, unsharp mask, etc.) which make the colors look odd to me.

Instead of an "expansion" tube, wouldn't it be better to tap a hole into the filler tube near the top and discretely run a flex tube to the frame somewhere? Let the gas rise to almost the cap and then overflow onto the street.

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Nope John, you do that and the Environmental Police will get you.However, you could run it back to the tank.---Keoke- /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/yesnod.gif
 
All the pictures downloaded this time and I see 7 engine pictures. I don't like the black engine bay or the radio speakers.

He did email me saying he did not know why the filler neck was there but would research it. Also gave me the lowest price he might accept.
 
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Nope John, you do that and the Environmental Police will get you.However, you could run it back to the tank.

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Keoke, help me out here ... if the gas tank is full and expanding to the point where it could run out the cap ... how can you "run it back into the tank"? Seems like you would need a fuel overflow tank somewhere.

Luckily we don't have any environmental police round here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif ... it's only going to happen if you fill the tank too full, park on a slant and it's a hot day (i.e. it's never happened to me).

Cheers,
John
 
HI John, it will happen anytime the tank is full on a hot day, particularly a problem if you have a car cover on to shield the interior from sunlight.---Keoke
 
I hope the door latches work. With all that Armour All, one could slide right out of the car on a turn. Hard to believe the mechanical restoration was completed 500 miles ago.
 
Yea but how can afford a fule tank nowadays? I'm not sure I'd like venting gas fumes in my boot right next to the battery and shut off switch.
 
I noticed that shiny stuff also. I was at a car show years ago and the judge must have like that stuff becasue the winning Jaguar looked like the entire interior had been sprayed with super high gloss something. It really looked artificial.

The gas pipe doesn't look like a vent. Just a fill pipe that has been capped off. I can't see how it would function as an expansion chamber either. Strange
 
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The gas pipe doesn't look like a vent. Just a fill pipe that has been capped off. I can't see how it would function as an expansion chamber either. Strange

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And what's truly strange is that someone had to make some fair effort at fitting it to the tank- I presume its been brazed or welded on and that cannot have been a task anyone would do lightly... and I'd be concerned that this contraption would be more likely to leak than the main filler....

Unless someone has put an old style 100-4 tank in a 3000 and and left the other tube and cap in place, but it doesn't really look like that, either....
 
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Unless someone has put an old style 100-4 tank in a 3000 and and left the other tube and cap in place, but it doesn't really look like that, either....

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That was my first guess, wondered if the original tank had gone bad and someone had a 100-4 tank to put in as a cheap fix, leaving the old fill tube and external cap as decorative only /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif Can you imagine the stunned expression if somebody bought this car, didn't know about the gas tank, and went to fill it up? Wow at $3 a gallon that's a lot of wet pavement at the gas station /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif Anyway the glass decal indicates North Texas Austin Healey Club so somebody there probably knows the deal with this... hello? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif North Texas? Bueller? BUELLER??
 
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I hope the door latches work. With all that Armour All, one could slide right out of the car on a turn. Hard to believe the mechanical restoration was completed 500 miles ago.

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I noticed the that to make the doors" fit perfectly" would require the oxymoron "simple adjustment". Well I gotta go get some "Jumbo Shrimp",,,Bob /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
 
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