Thread: 1975 Diesel Fuel Sender

Hello D,
That sounds like an interesting problem. I had my seat frame out a few months ago do do a wash & blow-dry on my gearbox, and I can understand why you really don't want to remove the seat frame very often!!. I think it would take me over a day to get it out and in again, for such a simple job.

I just went and had a look at Tallulah. She is a diesel 10-seater, so the aux tank is under the driver's seat and our tanks may not be quite the same. Nevertheless, it's only 3 bolts at the front and 3 bolts at the rear, and the whole tank should drop neatly downwards. You don't need to take it out; it should give you enough access room at the top (if your tank is the same as mine).

Would this approach work with your setup? do let me know.

Cheers, Cerise.

I just found Gromit's photo of a tank: If yours is like this ,it may well drop down quite easily. Cheers, C.

Could you not just rig it up like the passenger side? a 'clip' in lid???

Thanks Gents.


The top of the sender is mostly hidden underneath the seat "runner" and seat base. I cant access it unless I take the seat base out and I don't want to do that again in a hurry! I don't need to drop the tank - not yet anyway. I just want access to the sender. I don't like cutting more holes than necessary - there's enough already, but whiles its off I thought a good idea to have a think about it.
cheers,
D

All the tanks I've got have the sender closer to the centre of the vehicle so they are not under the edge of the seatbox.

Is it a LH tank fitted on the RHS ? Otherwise it seems odd to make the sender inaccessible.




Colin

Originally Posted by gromit

All the tanks I've got have the sender closer to the centre of the vehicle so they are not under the edge of the seatbox.

Is it a LH tank fitted on the RHS ? Otherwise it seems odd to make the sender inaccessible.




Colin

That's how mine looks too!

THat's why I suggested the clip on lid.

ahh! that's interesting. Being a l/h tank in a r/h drive may be the reason. Typically me that I have the weirdo difficult one! I'll do a bit of digging and see what comes up.
cheers,
D