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[FLD]

That pump housing looks a bit grubby.

[JG]

I knew someone would point that out It isn't anymore.

[smiley]

The worst being the reconnection of the fuel lines to the pump canister. One of the lines is really really tight. And fitting the pump canister to the new tank is a bit challenging too (I stuck the seal in the freezer of a couple of hours).

So for nr 6, 12 and the one at the bottom of 7 requires access via the wheelarch, but the canister stuff needs removal to gain better access?

[JG]

6, 7, 13, 12, 11 and they've missed one out on the drawing are all fitted with the tank outside of the car.

The clips have to be possitioned to minimise any protusions because the whole lot has to fit through a very tight hole:

I had to cut some of the original clips (6 and 12 in the above drawing to get the tank out) and knowing that the clips that were going back on were slightly larger i enlarged the hole in the car slightly. I'm fairly sure it would not be possible to get the tank back in with screw clips like i used without a small enlargement.

For the PA tank, i'd advise fitting the pump canister out of the car (like a did) simply because the circlip is hard to get in. The bit that was hardest was refitting the fuel connectors back onto the pump canister.

[smiley]

As for the intial disconnecting to get the tank out, it's disconnect at 1,4,7 and 10 via wheel arch?
Then after swapping for new tank, worm hose 2,5,8 and 11 through a tight hole, and re-attach?
All through the wheel arch?



Also, what part of the handbrake is disconnected to drop the tank?

Edited by smiley, 28 May 2012 - 11:23 AM.

[JG]

Yep, 1,4,7 and 10 are removed inside the wheel arch. Very easy once the charcoal canister is out of the way.

The handbrake just disconnects at the splitting point where it goes two ways. one singe split pin.

Couple more pics that you don't often see of a VX, least i had not seen them before. The gaffa tape is 'factory'



You can see that the original cut out for the lines was too small, as they dented it when they fitted the tank originally.

[Goosenka]

I would be happy licking your car I think ::

[CocoPops]

You worry me goose!

[ArticMonkey]

I would be happy licking your car I think : :

um......

[JG]

Pretty much all back together now. It Runs, has about 15L of fuel in it, but says refill, i guess thats because much of it hasn't flowed the other side of the baffles yet. Got a bit distracted with cleaning the bits of the interior you can't see Just the undertrays, seats and wheels to go. the work of half an hour tomorrow.

[smiley]

I would be happy licking your car I think : :

Is that what they call it these days?

[JG]

Well it works Doesn't smell of fuel But you know i said i hated handbrakes. well i still do. Why, when it was reassembled in exactly the way it came apart, is the hand brake now taughter than before, so much so it doesn't completely release?

[techieboy]

It's the way of the VX. My handbrake was the most convincing bit of the brake test in the MOT today.

[JG]

I don't understand it. Nothing has changed, i did think that the pin was quite hard to get in, but decided that since i'd not changed anything nothing could be different.

[JG]

The last thing you want when you test the car for the first time after messing around with fuel system is overheating rear brakes

[techieboy]

Tension on the springs on the calipers changed when you released the cable, I guess.

[techieboy]

The last thing you want when you test the car for the first time after messing around with fuel system is overheating rear braked

Had my OSR caliper bind soon after buying the car. Had a major panic attack when I noticed the smoke pouring out of the wheel and the glowing hot brake disc. I'd been out for a proper country road run and didn't notice anything at all wrong until I happened to slow down for a traffic light and glanced in the side mirror.

[JG]

best of all the ds pads will have welded themselves to the discs

[Mangham54]

Had a similar issue with the MG gwen driving back from Durham to Castle. Came off at the Angel and the front offside wheel was like a furnace.

[GeorgeBC]

That circlip is a pain and it definitely seems a lot more difficult to fit them in the pro alloy tanks than it is in the originals!