I have a stock fj40 fuel sending unit which reads 17 ohm +\- 2.1 ohm when full. It reads 120 ohm +\- 6.5 when empty. I am trying to find an autometer gauge which will work in this range. I found one with a range of 16 to 158 ohm. This would work for measuring a full tank, since the range on...
By far the biggest PIA aspect of the install was getting the seats to fit properly. With my roll cage creating head clearance issues I had to build a seat mounting system where my seats sit just a few millimeters off the top of the tank. This close clearance required me to have to modify the...
My solution to the kinking of the hose was to cut up a 90 degree piece of 2&1/2 inch PVC pipe which was sandwiched around the bend and tightened down with pipe clamps which smushed the kink out and restored a round(ish) diameter
After cutting away I took a piece of 2 inch flexible fuel line to connect both sides. The short 90 degree bend caused the hose to kink. Also not shown in the pics, The stock fuel filler line is slightly larger than 2 inches. I had to cut the metal line and reduce its diameter, then reweld it...
With the tank in place it became obvious that I would run in to problems with getting the filler nozzle to line up properly. In the end I had to cut approx 3/4 of an inch from the length of the new tanks nozzle. I also had to cut away the bend in the stock filler neck.
Other things that needed to get grinded off the floor board prior to tank installation were the origional gas tank strap hold down clevisus - I removed all 4. Also I prefit the tank where I wanted it and drilled the holes for it to mount. The tank mounts with 4 x 3/8 bolts and the mounting...
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next up is trimming up the trans tunnel, a portion of the support rib on the driver side also had to be trimmed
Unfortunetly I misplaced the new welded in metal, you can see a bit of the welded in stuff in the last pic. I'll try to locate my missing welded in aftershots later
I have wanted to increase the fuel capacity in my 67 Fj40 for quite some time. When Man-a-Fre started stocking the long range tanks I had lusted over I felt it was time to step up. Unfortunetly the tank is designed to fit post 72 model years. The earlier models have a tool box and...
Not yet, Ive been concentrating on finishing up the install of the man-a-fre 28 gallon gas tank in my 67 40, which has required a bunch of massaging to get it to be a clean install. Im gonna tackle the orion hopefully soon. Thnx
That was an awesome response!!! Thank you Georg for taking the time to write that all out. I will look again to make surety at is where my problem is and if so I'll contact you for the parts
Thanks again. :beer: