kevin the chicken

Another tv show for me to avoid then. Can't stand him

If you have lost this amount through a leak or evaporation I am sure there would be a constant smell of fuel in a closed garage. I recently had a non start issue with mine due to a perished rubber pipe where you could smell fuel but not see any leak, the pipe was just cracked enough to stop the fuel being drawn out of the tank by the pump. This was fairly new pipe too, so that roll of pipe has now been assigned to other duties as it was obviously not fit for purpose. It can and does feel like one thing after another sometimes but it sounds like you are nearly at the finish so don't give up. After my recent experience I would take any rubber pipes off while the tank is empty and examine them by bending to look for cracks and then if you can't find anything fill up and look for leaks. I finally found my leak by putting my finger over the end of the pipe and blowing through the other, it was that hard to see. God I love the taste of premium unleaded in the morning

I used rtv to join the flexible joiner to my down pipe and the can to that. This was on the advice either from the can manufacturer or from somebody at CBS, both of whom should know what they are talking about. So far after 18 months it is still ok. I do remember they said you can use silicone but rtv is the best. I think someone on here said that silicone can affect lambda sensors so just be careful where you use it

The breather valves you mentioned are designed to let air into the tank as the fuel is used but to shut should the car become inverted so that the fuel can't escape. I looked at them but decided that they were too expensive for what they were. To work properly they have to mounted vertically,either in the tank itself or inline in a piece of pipe.Therefore I put a breather tube in that goes up as high as possible in the car then goes down outside the car to a point lower than the bottom of the fuel tank so again if the car became inverted fuel would not escape. With the tube outside the car there is no smell of petrol fumes either. You could block off your breather and drill your fuel cap as an alternative.

Yes happy birthday dave. A mere boy

My wife said that Hammond and may are in negotiation with Netflix to carry on with a similar series but with clarkson in a production position. Not sure how much truth there is in that though. I agrees it probably has run its course now, it never bothered me if I missed it as most of it had no connection with the real world and you can only get laughs for the same joke so many times. It did have its moments though.

Have you seen the set that CBS sell? I wanted some for the wife's spartan which were not too expensive. They worked out slightly more expensive than the etb ones as a set but you got two extra instruments. They are more of a retro style than modern so may not suit your need but they are not that different from the smiths style. Caerbont industries do several different styles, I like the ones with yellow faces

Bet you still get covered in it though. I use one of those syringes for my unimog and my landrover. That ep ninety gear oil really stinks and you just can't seem to wash it off

Shouldn't want to re-shoe it on my salary.

I think I got some from demon tweeks. They sell it by the metre and in different sizes. Go for the largest size you can for obvious reasons.

Like mick I prefer to use parts made by well known companies. You may well able to save a bit of cash on something that looks ok but I know that if I have a problem I can stilll get hold of the company and that they have to protect their good name with good customer service. As mick said, each to their own.

That sender was in and out like a fiddlers elbow today but I have now by judicious bending and rebending got it to read half full with four gallons of fuel in it. Hopefully it will read less with less fuel in and then I will be satisfied.

8x8x36 comes out around 37 litres according to a couple of calculators I found on the net. I hope it's correct because that's the basis for my setup for my fuel gauge. Tell me I right please.

A tank that size will hold around eight gallons or 37 litres when full so a quarter of a tank would be about 9 litres

Dry here but car in bits and got to work in the garden. Overslept and wasted some tinker time

Have reversed it and it worked fine out of the tank but only showing just over empty with half a tank of fuel in. Obviously needs a bit more tweaking. Got loads of other jobs which are more pressing but I won't be beaten so out it comes again first thing tomorrow. At least one that works in reverse is correct at one point.

When I got my licence back after losing it through illness it had the reduced weight towing on it and no 7.5 ton entitlement or HGV. I knew the HGV was going to be lost for 10 years but nobody could explain why the other two things had gone. The only way I could get them back was to retake the tests which I refused to do, I was Ill for gods sake not inept. This hit us quite hard as we did a lot of towing, taking various tractors to shows and moving machinery around. Taking a second look at the licence showed the tractor entitlement was still on there with no restrictions so I went out and bought a four ton unimog which with an air braked trailer can tow twenty tons behind. Even better as it says agricultural machine on the logbook it doesn't need an annual test and road tax is free. Interestingly recently I heard that if you passed your HGV on a bin lorry or fire engine which had an automatic box you can now apply to have it upgraded to manual as we'll as DVLA now consider that if you drive a manual car you should be able to cope with manual lorry too, a couple of the drivers from our station have done this.

I just had another look and that is exactly what has been done to the old one, the box has been turned the wrong way up, although the float is still the other way up. I think I will attempt the same although I will cut the stops off and make some new ones and reverse the float wire and then it should work exactly the same but the right way up. Thanks for that, it sometimes just takes another person to point me in the right direction. I can only assume that revotec changed the direction in recent years as my gauges are a few years old

It came from rally design, the only place I could find one that supposedly matched the gauge. You don't think the gauge is wired incorrectly for it then?

I have finally got around to sorting out my fuel gauge problems and after being unable to work out if the gauge was faulty or if it was the sender plumped for the sender because the fuel pick up pipe which ran through it was loose and leaking so it needed changing anyway. The new one doesn't have a fuel pick up in it so I am going to use a redundant pipe which comes out of the bottom of the tank plus the new sender is smaller than the old one which means I have had to make up a new plate to go over the large hole to mount the sender in. In short a couple of hours work has turned into a days and now nearing completion I checked the sender before fitting it in to the tank only to find it works in reverse! It is the correct revotec sender for the gauge so I am wondering if the gauge was wired the wrong way round to suit the old sender? The gauge has three wires fitted to it, one of which is twinned so I am presuming that would be a looped power feed? The other two, one red one black ( earth?) vanish in to the loom. Thoughts please gentlemen

My employer has insisted on seeing my licence to check for any points I might have. As I had lost my old one I applied for a new one, got it after about four days which I thought was good but no paper part so no list of convictions. Not that I have any. Nowadays you have to look online to see any bodies driving record. Just like I told them but nobody listens. You would think that a firm with as many drivers as royal mail would keep up to date with this sort of thing.

I think gbs still sell the archer one for about a fiver. Mine has already found a new home

As per title. It's my wife's spartan, needs stripping out and starting from scratch. The chap who was going to do it hasn't turned up again, no phone call no text so he can take a running jump. I certainly won't be recommending him even though I know he is good with electrics. I have a new fuse box, instruments but no wire. It is a very basic car with dizzy ignition, no ecu or anything like that. Donor was a mk 4 cortina. If anyone is interested get in contact and we can talk about payment. Ideally I would like it done soon as my wife would like to get it back on the road for the summer. Not had a good day today waiting in for sparky to come, mended my shredder but broken my lawn mower, could have been out in the hood. Pass the cider.

Plumped for a set from CBS in the end. I looked at the ETB ones but found in the end that I would only spend an extra 40 quid if I bought the set from CBS which would have an electronic speedometer, a tachometer and voltmeter as well as fuel,oil pressure and temperature gauge. This also solved the problem of the speedo not matching. Trouble is I now need to make a new dash!

I have used them a lot. I know that if I have a problem I can phone them up and talk to someone who knows what they are talking about. That's why I got the gauges for my wife's car from them this week. Ordered them online Thursday about 3.30 and they were here Friday lunchtime. Can't praise them enough.