>On Thu, 22 Feb 1996, Bart Schwartz wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to remove the fuel tank from my '76 Midget..
>> When I tried to remove the fuel line from the tank, I tried to turn
>> the nut connecting the line to the tank and CRACK! It crumbled into
>> pieces. I hate when that happens, but I can't say it's the first
>> time.
>>
>> Anyway, now I have the fuel line connected to the tank with no nut and
>> I still can't budge the fuel line at all (at least without damaging
>> it.
and Ray Gibbons, of the People's Republic of Vermont replied:
>I would quit trying to turn the washer that is flush against the tank; I
>am pretty sure this is brazed into the tank to provide the threads that
>the departed nut screws into.
Ray's observations agree with my memory of the set-up.
The metal fuel line only runs to the fuel pump on every Midget
that has an electric fuel pump, so it may not be more than 3
feet long total. If you have the pump at the block, well,
the damage to the nut seems to indicate that the lines are
perhaps in need of replacement too.
The most critial thing to "protect" here is the threaded
washer-like nut attached to the fuel tank.
Nearly every junker I have looked at still has all its fuel
lines attached, so you can find another original one easy.
Getting it off is another story... good luck. I would buy
a new fuel line kit myself.
Here is a (very!) low-resolution image of the subassembly
with which you are fighting:
Likely location of Fracture
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Fuel Hex Screw "Bulbous End" Washer-like
Line Nut Threads of Fuel Line Nut
The screw-threads are still in the threaded washer-like PEM-nut
on the tank. The screw threads are holding in the "bulbous" end
of the fuel line. If you cut the fuel line flush with the surface
of the remaining fragments of the nut/screw threads, you should
be able to use an "Easy-Out" to remove the remaining fragment of
the fuel line and nut without damaging the washer-like nut threads.
No software will ever be able to compress information to the
extent a human female does when she merely raises an eyebrow.
james fischer jfischer@supercollider.com
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