Over the weekend, I should be able to provide pictures of an original
pre 60K tank and an original post 60K tank.
Ed has offered to put them up on his site for all to see.
They are pretty rusty old tanks but should give everyone something to
compare to.
Thanks,
Mike
Randall wrote:
>>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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