[Tigers] lights

[Smit, Theo]

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 at aol.com [mailto:CoolVT at aol.com]
	Sent: October 22, 2009 10:56 AM
	To: Smit, Theo; bob_diehl at earthlink.net; tigers at 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 at 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