Another
smallish job on the car completed. This weekend I found a bit of spare time to
fit the fuel filler neck and connect it to the tank. Over the past few weeks I
had been searching through my spare parts in search of a decent filler neck
hose to use between the filler neck and the fuel tank. But I only found one,
and that was badly damaged. So in the end I opted for a more modern approach
and ordered a 300mm long piece of universal ø51mm diameter flexible fuel hose
from a motor sport outlet.
Another
"problem" I encountered was the non vented large diameter fuel filler
cap. When I bought the car it came with
a rather bodged rear deck replacement from a later model, so with the
small vented filler cap. As a result of which the original "breathing"
device (part #158526) was missing. Luckily I found a separator canister (part #UKC2257)
from a US specification PI car I broke a few years ago. Which should do the same
job. And it turned out that the mounting bracket for this canister was fitted to the
inside of the fuel filler shroud of my car's body:
With all
parts ready it was time to fit them to the car. I had mentally prepared for a
few frustrating moments because there is very little room to manoeuvre inside
the shroud. But I had hoped that at least the universal hose would slide onto
the tanks filler tube easily (as it did on the filler neck). Of course it
didn't!
With the later
type of filler neck you can assemble the filler neck and hose to the tank, and fit
the everything from underneath. Sadly with the early type the filler neck has
to be fitted from above. Which means the filler hose has to be slipped over the
tanks tube in a very confined space. Took me well over half an hour to get it
on. Time for the next challenge, fit the canister and the various hoses and
tighten all hose clips in the now even more confined space. But got everything
in position in the end. Only had to turn one hose clip after I took these pictures
...
I also had
planned to fit the panel to close of the filler neck shroud, but I remembered
just in time that I needed access to the space for fitting the left hand rear
shock absorber! And just
for the records, yesterday was the cars 42 birthday or should I say registration day,
as she was first registered on October the 6th 1976!
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