Ivan's coupe: bodywork is done

[Ivan141]

Another day, another dissapointment.

Work on the fuel tank install proceeded today.
-Took the fuel sender off the old tank, had to beat the screws into submission with an impact screwdriver. Then discovered the sender unit was falling apart inside (worked fine when taken off the road).
The wiper did not contact the coil at all and some of the shielding had slipped down from its proper position. I bent the wiper arm a bit so it makes good contact again and jerry-rigged the thing back together.

When I wanted to mount it to the new tank I discovered I have left my gaskets in a box at home. ffffFFFFFUUUUUuu.

Havent found my missing fuel line brackets so I bent up some new ones for the time being:


In some further preparations for mounting the fuel tank I treated the nooks and crannies around the fuel tank with cavity wax (Noxudol 700) and emptied the rest of the bottle in all chassis members under the floor.

This stuff was best in test in some british magazine a while ago. eventually I will also fill the sills and other sensitive areas up with Mike Sanders fat, which was best in test in some german magazine. It needs to be heated for application though, which is finicky.

A question to any of you who may be rocking the Spectra fueltank: It seems to be missing the wide bit at top of the filler neck that the OEM tank has. This leaves a gap between the pipe and the plastic shield around it, also I think the fuel cap screws into this.
How did you solve this? The original one should be detachable according to EPC pictures, but it sure seems welded in place on my crusty old filler pipe.