Replacing the gas tank

[amigaguy]

Thanks Ivan141 for the advice to drop the tank a bit, and then loose the screws for the fuel pump... worked just fine...

Here is a little how to based on my experiences:



First step is to disconnect the battery, and the wires to the floater and fuel pump in the trunk of the car:





Then get the car up in the air, either by using some muscles, or if you are a regular human by use of a car jack.

After you have secured the car on some car pole thingys or whatever its called in english, you can use the car jack to support the weight of the fuel tank:





You are now ready to loosen the bolts holding the fuel tank straps:





Then lower the tank gradually and watch the fuel tank lines so that they dont get stretched to much. There are some rubber hoses between the fuel pipes and the fuel pump, which makes it a bit flexible and possible to lower the tank without damaging anything:





After you have lowered the tank, use some 5-56 or similar de-rusting liquid, penetrating oil. And try to gently loosen the bolts that is holding the pump in place:





After gently lowering the tank and extracting the fuel pump, the tank is ready to come out:





The new tank, looks a bit more clean... and it doesnt leak like a strainer:





The floater which meassures the amount of fuel in your tank possed the most problems for us to remove because of rusty crosshead screws. But making a bit of a notch in the screw with a metal saw did the trick:





The new tank ready to go in, with the floater already mounted:






Unfortunatly I didnt take any more pictures after that, but its pretty straight forward just putting the tank in reverse of how it was removed... hehe... :-)

Maybe this will help a bit if someone else is planning to replace their tank...