Can a late model tank fit in an early model car? Mine has almost sucummed to
the dreaded rust monster.
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
To: Michael Burdick <mburdick@netserv.unmc.edu>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 8:25 AM
Subject: RE: Spitfire Fuel Line
>
>>My '70 Mk3 has the vent line AND a recovery tank in the boot. The vent
>>tube exits the filler neck to the passenger side, goes all the way around
>>the boot rim once and into the catch tank. Another line goes from the
>>catch tank forward along the frame rail to the plastic charcoal canister
>>in the engine bay. My car is a late '70 Mk3 and has many elements of the
>>MkIV. I always assumed that was one of them..
>***********************************************
>No that is the way the 70 MK3's were made, and possibly some MK4's as they
>probably used up all the "old" tanks, until they phased in the newer tanks
>with the filler neck extending into the tank. I, unfortunately, had one of
>those fuel tanks originally, without the vapor recovery catch tank. The
>original gas tank in mine would hold just under 9 gallons (8.8 US) instead
>of the older (and later) tanks that would hold 10 US gallons. When mine
>began to leak a few years ago, I replaced it with a (76 I believe) 10
>gallon one with it's vapor tank, which now resides in the right side rear
>wing- By the way, these tanks are slightly different from different years.
> Some are rectangular, while others are kind of triangular in shape.
>
>Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
>72 V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
>70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
>70 Spitfire
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