So. My new fuel tank has been sitting in the office for the past weeks ( quite a few), the reason being that i want to level out how it sits in the car. Doing so will make the fuel sender work properly, because with the tank tilted forward it's not 'reading/picking up' the fact that there's 3 galls or so in the tank.
( i'd designed it to show empty at 2 galls).
I figured ages ago when the tank came out that moving the front fixing ( a length of ally angle) down to the bottom of the tank ( 2 inchs'ish) should have the right effect. But i wanted to be sure, and didnt want to do it and have the tank sloping the other way. By now the car was on the ground, surrounded by other odds n sods and single handedly getting it back onto ramps wouldnt be so easy.
Hence the tank sitting in my office, whilst i ruminated ( delayed ) getting the car up and trial fitting the tank to measure again ( and again).
Hands up, i'll admit it, i can walk past the same thing umpteen times and forget its there, so after a while it was just a wrapped parcel in the way....it was only when i'd talk to someone from the club that i;'d think - sod it, must sort that out. Mmm but i want to be sure about the measurements.....
Until, last weekend. When i realised that i was a/ a muppet b/ its poss to over think these things!
Erm, i'll confess, in my quest to get it right i'd overlooked a key factor.....
If i get a new strip of angle welded at the bottom of the tank, i can always pack it out with a spacer above it....because the bloody tank goes in from the bottom. What a prize plum!
So seems that this measure twice malarky is over rated!!
