Thanks, Berry for that description! On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Berry Kercheval wrote: [] > When you get the bars off, the rear of the tank lowers and the front > comes off the lip holding it up, yanking the fuel gauge wires from the > sender. THEN I noticed that the pressure equalization tube fitting was > broken clean off -- no wonder we kept smelling gas. [] If you have an older tank like my '82, the wire that connects to the sender doesn't do so in the vertical plane; it does it in the horizontal plane, so if you drop the tank down, you'll break the connection on the sender. Just lower the tank a little and reach up there and carefully pull the wire loose. [] > What a pain, though. If you do it, try to clean things off first, > and do get all new seals -- and a number of hose clamps. Some of the > connections I had to break had those factory-installed clamps that you > can't get off without side-cutters and can never, ever be reused. [] BTW Nail pullers work better than side cutters for removing those crimped on clamps. -- Gerry Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@med.umn.edu> U of MN Med School Admin 6-5379 Home St. Paul,Ramsey County,Minnesota, USA
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