Been too damn sick to do any of the touch up stuff I have on the to-do list. Drove it out to a local diner on Saturday morning and it ran great. Did a couple of 50-70 pulls down 33 in the process and was pretty happy with it. Even managed to chirp the rear tire with a quick handbrake pull coming up to a redlight. Had too much going on with the little guy on Saturday to get anything done but I was feeling pretty motivated for Sunday.
Dropped the tank and messed with the new locking ring some. It's nearly impossible to get a hard enough hit on it without also knocking it off-center. I'm sure there's a special tool out there that does it a lot easier but tipping the tank forward revealed the makeshift plug I made was still leaking. I made a quick trip to AutoZone for some fuel resistant gasket maker. I tested it again and still wasn't really getting a great feeling about it. It's a pain in the ass to get this tank out and I really don't want to do it a second time or leak gas all over the gas station again. SO I did the only sensible thing and finally pulled the trigger on a fuel cell.
I was hoping to get something that would fit in the spare wheel well but that was going to limit me to 10-12 gallons. Eventually settled on this:
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19 gallons and should fit just fine to the left side of the wheel well (30x12x12) and look pretty good to boot. Gonna have to pray no one rear-ends me before I get some kind of firewall built for it.
Dropped the tank and messed with the new locking ring some. It's nearly impossible to get a hard enough hit on it without also knocking it off-center. I'm sure there's a special tool out there that does it a lot easier but tipping the tank forward revealed the makeshift plug I made was still leaking. I made a quick trip to AutoZone for some fuel resistant gasket maker. I tested it again and still wasn't really getting a great feeling about it. It's a pain in the ass to get this tank out and I really don't want to do it a second time or leak gas all over the gas station again. SO I did the only sensible thing and finally pulled the trigger on a fuel cell.
I was hoping to get something that would fit in the spare wheel well but that was going to limit me to 10-12 gallons. Eventually settled on this:
19 gallons and should fit just fine to the left side of the wheel well (30x12x12) and look pretty good to boot. Gonna have to pray no one rear-ends me before I get some kind of firewall built for it.