fuel tank filler pipe

[Jeepster]

I need to buy a new fuel tank filler pipe and this has just come up on ebay.

Does this look the correct fitment for my BJ8? When I look in the parts catalogues it doesnt show the rim about a quarter way up?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190666902618?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

[Keoke]

Ask the seller this questiom

 

[Jeepster]

Surprisingly, I had thought of that.

Sadly, many ebay sellers will tell you what you want to hear or would simply not know.
I find the information from this site far more reassuring.

 

[Bob_Spidell]

Caveat: I'm at work and working from memory.

Looks correct to me. I think what you're referring to as a 'rim' is the rubber collar/grommet that seals the tube at the shroud. I think it goes around the neck on the outside of the shroud; the lip on the top (left in the photo) would hold it against the shroud. The bottom of the piece--to the right in the photo--looks to have the short piece of flex tubing that attaches to the tank. Hard to tell from the photo, but I don't see the wire hose clamps that would be on either end of the flex tubing.

 

[Patrick67BJ8]

I need to buy a new fuel tank filler pipe and this has just come up on ebay.

Does this look the correct fitment for my BJ8? When I look in the parts catalogues it doesnt show the rim about a quarter way up?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190666902618?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

PM me your email address and I will send you a photo of mine since it's out of my car.

 

[bob hughes]

Jeepster

There should be a swaged section on the filler pipe. The plot thickens a bit as AH Spares catalogue seems to show one at each end whilst SC Parts show one at the bottom end only, as does the BMC parts catalogue. I suppose that as SC Parts have basically reprinted the BMC diagrams those two will be the same.

To me it makes sense to have the filler pipe tight into the shroud with the rubber gromet without a swage at this end to assist in removal, and at the bottom end, a the rubber connecting pipe would sit over the bottom swage and would be clamped against it much as you get at the thermostat cover or the bottom hose connection to the radiator.





Bob

 

[tahoe healey]

I'm not sure what a swage is. Do you mean the flat lip that we call a flange that sits on the rubber grommet on the shroud? If so, I've never seen one on each end of the filler tube. I believe I am not talking about the same thing.

 

[bob hughes]

Hi Tahoe

My mistake, I have not removed mine yet, I just looked under the filler cap and you are quite correct, there is a flange welded to the tube and it is sitting ontop of the rubber grommet.

I must confess that I was reading from the diagrams that are available, and they show a line, that I read as a bump (swage) in the metal, at the <span style="text-decoration: underline">bottom</span> of the tube in an exploded diagram of cap, grommet, pipe, clip, rubber connector, clip and fuel tank.

I guess it shows that for certain things, even the official diagrams my not show elements in their correct orientation !!.



Bob

 

[Patrick67BJ8]

Phots of my Gas Tube. Bright finish is CAD plating.