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RE: [TR] Gas Tank Mounting

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Subject: RE: [TR] Gas Tank Mounting
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:23:41 -0700
> Looking at pictures in Moss, the tank looks like it's supposed to
> be boxy.

Yup, early originals were very boxy.  The body of the tank was a single
piece of sheet metal, bent and formed into a folded seam that only ran side
to side on the bottom.  The two end panels were separate pieces, with seams
that ran all around the ends.

> The Sending Unit would mount in a hole in
> the front (or
> the back, depending on how you mounted the tank.)

Early stock sending unit mounted from the top, to the right of the filler
neck.  Roughly centered front to back, although ISTR it was a little closer
to the back.

>  There is a six
> or so inch
> deep and wide indendentation on the bottom as if it were meant to
> fit over a
> bulge of some kind.

Early tanks had nothing like that.

Randall


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