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ncbugeye

ncbugeye

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As I type with oily hands, I am trying to remove ncbugeye's fuel tank to have it boiled.

I have all the 1/2" nuts undone all the way round, 6 of them.

I have the fuel pipe union detached at the right front of the tank.

It will move, and sort of rotates around the right rear corner, but it won't come down. Something at right rear is holding it up there.

What is it?
 
Filler neck or sending unit wire? If not it is caught on the threads of the mounting bolts.
 
Wish I had a clue, Chris, but my last Frogeye resto has been too many years back to have any recollection of the specifics. Hopefully Jack or another who's done it recently will pap up soon. Tim's suggestion seems the likely suspect.

sorry!
 
Bolts around tank, fuel line, filler pipe press fit. That's it.
 
Chris, it definitely sounds as though it's hanging up on the threads of the mount stud. If you can, try to drop it down as straight as possible. A little judicious prying may help if all else fails. There shouldn't be anything else holding it in at this stage.
Jeff
 
It was the "straight as possible" that I wasn't doing. I had it slightly caddy-cornered as I was trying to pull it down from underneath, and it clearly wasn't working. I pushed it back on to the studs and then pushed down directly on the filler pipe from above, and down it came. VoilĂ .

OK, so I have it out and the sender unit removed, (boy those six screws were tight) and the sender unit looks almost as new - absolutely corrosion-free, and the inside of the tank looks almost completely rust-free. Is this possible? This is definitely the original tank as the fill tube has the red paint from when the interior was roughed out with red in the factory.

I had heard that this was a must-do for a car that still has its original tank from 48 years ago...
 
It's entirely possible Chris. I've got an original tank here that is bright shiny metal on the inside. Not all fuel tanks are rusty piles of caca.
Jeff
 
I think not, this paint is ONLY on the middle section of the filler tube, i.e. it covers that part of the filler tube that was accessible inside the cave. Interestingly the cave was very clearly brush-painted, not sprayed, including the filler tube, to the extent that the extreme upper rear part of the tube, which was clearly hard to get to with a brush, was missed. I would imagine that painting the cave on these bodies was a task given to the ones who were still "wet around the ears" as there was probably a fair amount of noxious fumes in there while doing that job.
 
That is awesome. I would just put it back on then. There should not be much junk in that tank. I bought an add on fuel filter that you can take apart and clean at an auto parts store and put it in the line right before the filter. Even though I coated my tank, I figure that it couldn't hurt.
 
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