Oh great. Here come the concours guys!
What kind of tape is it? How wide? How far up each pipe? Is it wound
clockwise or anticlockwise? How much overwrap? After 40 years, how much
should be peeling off?
;)
Theo
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From: CoolVT@aol.com [mailto:CoolVT@aol.com]
Sent: October 22, 2009 10:56 AM
To: Smit, Theo; bob_diehl@earthlink.net; tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] lights
I noticed that my original metal pipes in that area had some
kind of tape marking where the rubber pipes have to align on the metal
pipe. Without some kind of marking it is pretty hard to tell how far to
slide the rubber on to the metal. Slide on too far and the opposite end
will come up short, resulting in a possible leak.
Mark L
Theo.Smit@dynastream.com writes:
Last May, about a week after first getting my Tiger back
together and
doing some road tests, I had to take it apart to rebuild
the clutch
release bearing. So it was jacked up on all four corners
and the front
crossmember and engine were out - i.e. it was really not
movable in any
practical way.
I leave for work and noticed a bit of a gasoline smell
in the garage. I
looked under the Tiger, expecting some drips from the
disconnected fuel
line at the engine compartment, but didn't see anything
there. So I go
to work. When I got home, the gas smell was a lot
stronger, and the
source was now evident: I had a four-foot diameter
puddle of gas under
the rear of the car and it was starting to migrate
towards the garage
door. An epoxy-painted floor doesn't absorb much. I
opened the trunk lid
and found that the entire rear valence had flooded with
gasoline, and it
was seeping between the body seams into the trunk
(wrecking the paint
and undercoat there) as well as into the space
underneath each of the
fuel tanks. There was maybe a couple of liters of fuel
pooled in the
back of the car, but the tanks were about half full and
so there was
potential for a lot more.
Some investigation revealed that the hose connections
between the fuel
tank and the crossover pipes had either slipped or else
I'd installed
them off-center to begin with. The hose pieces were new
and the tank
ends and pipes had been painted. Maybe that all
contributed to the
slippage. Anyway, I backed off the hose clamps
(unleashing another flood
of fuel) then repositioned the hoses and tightened the
clamps. Cleaned
it all up with a bunch of kitty litter.
Not exactly a Pinto moment, but lots of potential for
disaster anyway.
Make sure your hose clamps are tight after you replace
those old hoses.
Theo
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