18th September 2010 - Fuel Tank

After last week's events, this week was slightly lower key.  The first things to do were to re-fit the gear lever after putting some grease on the rather dry-looking selector and to torque up the rear wishbone bolts (some of which will be inaccessible when the fuel tanks on).  The tank itself was fairly straightforward, requiring the fitting of the outlets using PTFE tape on the threads before putting foam tape everywhere it'll touch and fastening it down with aluminium straps.


Fuel tank in place

Next on the list was adding some rubber fuel pipes - one for the breather from the top of the tank to the top of the chassis, the second from the return (copper) fuel pipe to the tank.  Then it was time to prepare the fuel pump and filter, including changing the loom (spade) connections for round ones.  That done, it was time to fit them;  except where the instructions say they should be fitted would require drilling right though the chassis box section, but if we did there would be no suitable bolt.  Another one for Westfield I think - they need chasing about the transducer bracket anyway!  Frustrated at another time-wasting setback, we tried the scuttle in place to see how it looks:

Looks even more like a car with the scuttle on

As a final task we started fitting up the radiator and fan, but didn't put the assembly on the car as the radiator looks so fragile.  One for just before the nose goes on I think.