Thread: 3.9 v8 temperature sender

This tank will fill straight to the top .... no expansion space I'm going to have to find out it's capacity and fill it by 3 litres less to give some expansion room rather than letting the bowser drop out. All they had to do was weld in tubes that recessed into the tank say 1/2" and there would have been plenty of expansion space. I don't understand why a tank manufacturer would do this ?



I drilled this out and threaded the fitting in. You know ... it still leaked a lot of air. it's so ovalised from manufacture you would need to drill it out to the point where it's to weak to use to make it "round".



We will see how this sealer works with plastic tomorrow.



Oh yeah, if your thinking the top of the tank is crowned to provide and expansion space ..... Nope!

seeya,
Shane L.

Well I didn't bother swapping the lines or checking the wiring or anything.... You see I didn't want to admit it to myself, but once again I'd been a moron.

I took these piccies of the fuel pump when I sealed up the wiring.





I noted when I pried this out .... The was only 2wires there, so I wondered why there was a 3wire plug.... But chose to ignore this as it all looks untouched and obviously works. Yes, I should do some

So all the fun of pulling the bloody tank out and re-installing again Hey 2nd time around is always easier right ... I've found 3rd and 4th times get even faster and easier too

I've been trying to avoid doing everything multiple times by doing it right the first time .... Oneday, I'll succeed in actually achieving this





I see that soldering and can feel my blood pressure rising and can remember the frustration and anger instantly. I've done HEAPS of this soldering in the past. I have at least 5 soldering irons here .... and no matter the size of them (even the old massive 240volt weller I own ) they solder just like this. You see the iron is *JUST* getting hot enough to melt the solder, but not hot enough to heat what your soldering too. So you end up melting everything, but not actually ever getting it hot enough solder anything together. It's not that you can't solder, it's the god damn irons are crap.



I fed the wiring up through the top ...



filed a nice clean connection for soldering.



Lovely .... I could NOT go back to not having a decent soldering iron. If your struggling with **** like above. It's NOT you .... You NEED a decent soldering iron.



my wife bought me one of these for a birthday present years a few years back.... A superscope iron. It's a revelation using one of these suckers with seemingly endless power after all the other cheap irons I've tried to solder with in the past. The seemingly impossible becomes simple and effortless.

Finally a fume free car that runs on both petrol and LPG

seeya,
Shane L.