cage wrote:Been a while Scott. Great job on the seats and they are sitting nice and low in the beast. Well done mate.
Yes Cage
And almost 1 1/2 years further again since i worked on her last.
I have cleared
"some" backlog of stuff keeping me away from the Mustang. Although in that time it did include importing the Cadillac and getting it on the road.
I’m not going to jinx myself and say its all plain sailing to the finish line from here but hell I’m still bloody keen.
The last few days I have been bolting in the new 1970 22 gallon fuel tank, doing the filler neck mod and decided to fit a BF sedan fuel pump unit.
Apart from cutting some slices each side of the pump hole to fit the support ring underneath and then welding them back up i didn’t do any other welding. The slices also helped in the flattening out process taking out the raised stretched metal.
The welding would of been avoided if i just put one slice in the support ring and wound it through, but at the time i was planning a different approach of totally welding the ring to the tank and making blind nuts so fuel doesn’t leak out the screw threads.
It occurred to me that with my Cadillac fuel sender unit which is screwed into position through open holes into the tank, all that stood between the fuel seeping through the screw holes was the cork gasket, so why not just use cork for this.
When making the gasket it is important to punch the holes smaller than the thread size to ensure a tight seal so fuel doesn’t leak past the thread and out the top.
I made the bottom support ring by cutting off the outer vbelt ring from my mitushiti family van harmonic balancer I replaced recently, using my lathe I have recently purchased. This was after I almost gave up after spending hours trying to find the right size piece of metal laying around my house and our local hardware stores. The inner and outer circle diameters were perfect and is a solid bit of metal., I just drilled and tapped and ground out a bit of taper for the bolt heads to sit flush. I drilled the corresponding holes in the tank just big enough for the threads to push through with force which easily held the plate up.
For extra peace of mind I coated around the studs and gasket area with this stuff that was recommended from the auto shop which is supposed to be very resistant to fuels oils and LPG . It squished out all the sides when I bolted it down with the gasket and upper plate, I then cleaned up the excess and left it overnight to dry.
Fitted the tank the next day with the rubber tape between tank and car body and new sccrews, modified the filler neck and purchased some new 57mm fuel grade rubber hose for filler neck to tank connection.
Put in the new fuel pump and ran fuel hose through the floor to the pipes underneath , ran the electrical wires and fitted some clamps to neaten it all up. Will make a protective cover for the pump later and put some plastic wrapping around hoses where they run near the chassis rails.
Also blanked of the new old pickup and ran the fuel sender wire.
This is the pump inside the tank looking through the old pickup/sender unit hole. Hard to make out in the pic but it sits about 10mm off the bottom of the tank in the 15-20mm pressed rebate in the tank.
sweet that sounds good. Awesome progress Scott it's looking real sweet 
