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The Classic Marque

They said no TCs were available? They must not have looked very hard!

I replaced the cork type sender to tank gasket with a viton one, which does seem to seal much better and resists fuel.

Appreciate this may be a bit of a 'Who?' but for those who enjoyed his writing, it's a shock, he was only 66.
Read his column in the Sunday Times every week, didn't always agree with him but he was a good read and very funny.
Quite a life he lead. Will be missed.

Haven't got either. Have got a straight edge, light source, and feeler gauges. It was very obvious how concave the flanges were. Now they are definitely flat by comparison. The question is, will they stay flat, or will they warp with heat?

Insert a comma and it all becomes clear

Who is Number 1?
You are, Number 6


Where's Rover when you need him?...

Yes, just remove the trunnion pin and let the rest hang there off the top trunnion.
Best to leave the arb link attached at the bottom and release it from the top, otherwise the arm might lose its alignment with the spring pan with the spring load on the latter.

I would have thought those porosity figures would have given a pressure at which the results were attained.

I would expect to see cracks etc in the filler tube if it’s leaking/ porous.
Also unless you fill to the neck or park on a very steep gradient fuel would not linger in the hose.

I haven’t noticed it on mine which is original 1972 rubber !

Leaking tank tops/ sender...

Cover it in PTFE tape Anam?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure you will, but isn't the ethanol in suspension with the petrol so with the ethanol escaping, won't it take petrol fumes with it? Or is that too simplistic?

Where's the surface plate and marking blue to check the flatness?

True Guy.

Thanks Dave.

Yep, I agree, I've got to sort out the flanges whatever gasket I use. Today I did a bit of welding and a bit of grinding. It's a whole lot flatter now, and now there's metal under all of the available gasket surface.

Flattened the flangrs on the inlet manifold too.

Tomorrow I'll bolt it up, again, and give it a try with yet another of the ...