Well some fun and games today, went to replace the fuel pump and found the fuel tank full of rust flakes! given it's a plastic tank that's quite an achievement!
So that explains why the pump is buggered then...... it gets worse my jag has the same problem.......bloody petrol station must be supplying shit dirty fuel! Tight Bastards too miserable to do any maintenance!,
There is that much crap in there, that I have to remove the tank to clean it properly.
So I start to remove it, out with the t-bar, soft top, seats, seat belts, centre console, air filter box, remove fuel filler, rear carpet, rear bulkhead insulation, rear bulkhead panel.... now according the the workshop manual all I have to do is remove the tank..........well the damned thing is bigger than the hole it is supposed to come out of!
I seem to remember reading somewhere, the ad and sorry tale of some poor sod that had to do this, but do you reckon I can find it? Nah of course I can't, did a search no luck there, trolled through the how tos, nah not there either.
I thought the as a how to somewhere, but apparently not! had I had known we didn't have one I might've bothered recording the process in pix, a vid would be almost impossible to do due to the lack of room.
So I'm up to the point of trying to extract the fuel tank but cant see what's holding it. And have called end of play for the day. Much swearing and cursing was issued, and a blood sacrifice was made
Maybe the tank has expanded with age, I know this happens to Fords with plastic tanks, The series Falcons came with a 80 litre tank when they were new in @1980, but they all hold about 85 litres now!
So I was hoping I could find where whoever had done it, had actually got the bloody thing out.
I can see it needs to be rolled out bottom first as that's going to be the only way the get the filler and pump mounting out but the bloody thing gets wedged in and jams at the flange round the centre tunnel. I was hoping to to need to apply shitloads of senseless violence, ATM I see little other choice as finess has failed. If I had 5mm I'd shit it in.

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