[Tigers] Fuel Pump Access Door

Gary garywinblad at comcast.net
Mon Jan 14 16:08:27 MST 2019


Joe,
Just looked and my hole looks the same as
yours.  It has rounding on front and back
edges but the hole looks widened..
strange!  I’ve never noticed that.  My door
has narrowed width on the aft side but does
still cover the hole.  Like Ron said, you may
have an early series Alpine door?
Gary

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> On Jan 14, 2019, at 7:58 AM, Joe Brown via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> Here are a couple of pictures of what I was trying to describe.  I added red arrows to the corner that is not covered by the access door. 
> <InkedFuel pump opening.jpg>
> 
> <InkedFuel pump access door.jpg>
> 
> My Tiger is a Mk1A, B382000217.  (And no, that is not the original fuel pump.  The original owner replaced it with a Carter pump and a Holley regulator)
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe Brown
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:32 AM <drmayf at mayfco.com> wrote:
>> Joe, include a photo and the tiger model? Might help.
>> mayf
>> 
>> On 2019-01-13 13:52, Joe Brown via Tigers wrote:
>> > I keep finding weird stuff as I slowly get my Tiger put together.
>> > Today I attached the fuel pump access door to the body and I
>> > discovered that it doesn't completely cover the hole in the body.  One
>> > corner of the hole is exposed.  The access door has angled off corners
>> > and the hole in the body has squared off corners and one of these
>> > squared off corners is exposed.  Is this common?  Were these openings
>> > in the body cut by hand?
>> > 
>> > Now I have to come up with something to cover this slight gap.
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Joe Brown
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