Re: Gas tank color

From: CHUCK NICODEMUS (SEALMSTR(at)ICCOM.COM)
Date: Wed Feb 11 1998 - 18:50:03 CST


Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) wrote:

> ----------
> From: Bob Douglas
>
> >My '62 S.II tank was originally black all around.
> >
> >BTW - were the bolts that hold the tank to the mounting ring (S.I/II)
> installed
> >heads up or down?
>
> The heads MUST face down.
> This since the mounting nuts are captured in welded on sheetmetal.
>
> If you mounted them the other way, you'd also have to have used
> nuts on the bottom side, and you wouldnt have been able to tighten the
> bolts because the sheet metal shield would crunch down before the
> head was tight to the nut.
>

darn i was wrong in my last note.chuck



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