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Gas tank:

I foolishly had the tank powdercoated before I cleaned the inside with acetone. Even though the tank was wrapped with three layers of protection and duct taped around the openings, the acetone damaged the coating on the top. I had to paint over the powdercoating.

I am using a Karmann Ghia sender to avoid needle bounce.

Rubber strips are stuck in the grooves on the top of the tank. The center one has a recess on the bottom to conceal the sender wires.

The cap on the sender was from an old VW mechanical sender that I had chromed.

The braided stainless vent hose was not needed but I had the hose and fittings. The adapters the hose connects to are AN-4 with a pipe thread on the other end. At the tank I cut off the threads and drilled out the fitting to fit over the tube on the tank neck. Then I epoxied the fitting to the tube.

I discovered the hardware store had nuts in the electrical department that fit pipe threads. The other AN fitting goes through a hole in the fiberglass with the special nut inside the fender well. This fitting was also drilled out to accept the one-way valve which is stuck in with silicone. The rubber hose from the valve loops up to the top of the fender then down below the pan.

The stock VW gas cap has an aluminum cover.

I had to use thick weather stripping around the edge of the tank to raise it up a bit because the underside was hitting fiberglass.

A guy on Samba was selling the clamps I used and I had to have spacer blocks made to raise them up due to the thick weatherstripping.


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