Gas tank and AN fittings, Can it be this easy? |
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Gas tank and AN fittings, Can it be this easy? |
Phoenix-MN |
May 19 2007, 06:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 927 Joined: 23-January 04 From: ST. Bonifacius,MN Member No.: 1,590 |
I was working on getting my fuel tank, fuel pump, and lines intalled today and I have been trying to figure out how to adapt the tank fittings to AN. After getting the tank on the bench and removing the stock fittings and tubes it looked like a 1/4npt pipe thread fitting might fit in the opening of the stock fitting. I dug out my taps and low and behold the 1/4npt tap threaded the hole in the stock fitting quite nicely. Could it realy be this easy? What am I missing? Anyone else done it this way? |
Phoenix-MN |
Jul 20 2007, 07:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 927 Joined: 23-January 04 From: ST. Bonifacius,MN Member No.: 1,590 |
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jsteele22 |
Jul 20 2007, 01:39 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 727 Joined: 24-August 05 From: Colorado Springs, CO Member No.: 4,653 |
I'm using both the socketless hose and braided hose. The socketless for connecting to the SS 3/8in. lines in the tunnel and stainless braided for the rest of the car (boy! the $$ add up quick). The Aeroquip AQP socketless hose and fittings really grip and make a solid seal, the stuff works real good. If I was to do it all over again I would probably use the socketless hose throughout. Paul Paul, that "socketless" hose and fittings sound interesting. I read the blurb on them at summit racing, and they say you just slide the hose onto the barbed fitting, and that's it. No hose clamp ? How hard is it to get the hose over the barb ? |
Phoenix-MN |
Jul 20 2007, 01:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 927 Joined: 23-January 04 From: ST. Bonifacius,MN Member No.: 1,590 |
The socketless stuff does take a little "grunt" to put them together. Anyone with strong hands can put this stuff together. I used a little oil to lube it up and once together and sitting for a day the only way to get the hose off the connector is to cut it off.
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andys |
Jul 20 2007, 03:46 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,165 Joined: 21-May 03 From: Valencia, CA Member No.: 721 Region Association: None |
The socketless stuff does take a little "grunt" to put them together. Anyone with strong hands can put this stuff together. I used a little oil to lube it up and once together and sitting for a day the only way to get the hose off the connector is to cut it off. For socketless and assorted other hard to install rubber hoses, etc, I use K-Y , hold the comments........... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif) After some amout of time, it simply disappears and it's not nearly as messy as using oil. Also good on assorted water hoses that are not resistant to oils. Andys |
jsteele22 |
Jul 20 2007, 04:02 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 727 Joined: 24-August 05 From: Colorado Springs, CO Member No.: 4,653 |
The socketless stuff does take a little "grunt" to put them together. Anyone with strong hands can put this stuff together. I used a little oil to lube it up and once together and sitting for a day the only way to get the hose off the connector is to cut it off. For socketless and assorted other hard to install rubber hoses, etc, I use K-Y , hold the comments........... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif) After some amout of time, it simply disappears and it's not nearly as messy as using oil. Also good on assorted water hoses that are not resistant to oils. Andys Hmm, never thought about using K-Y for that Does it still take a little grunt ? I would think if its socketless ..... Do you still need strong hands ? I hope you never have to cut off the hose ! Sorry, I tried to hold it back, but I couldn't. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
Phoenix-MN |
Jul 20 2007, 06:42 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 927 Joined: 23-January 04 From: ST. Bonifacius,MN Member No.: 1,590 |
Boy, it's a good thing we're not talking about rear end lube (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)
andys, here's the seam of the screen showing the tacks along it's length |
kconway |
Apr 7 2011, 11:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,347 Joined: 6-December 04 From: Monrovia, CA Member No.: 3,231 Region Association: Southern California |
Bumpin this...wondering if there is any more to add or anyone else that has done this. Super clean job!
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jim912928 |
Apr 8 2011, 06:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,485 Joined: 8-January 04 From: Granger, IN Member No.: 1,536 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
CB Performance (VW shop) sells AN 6 tank adapters (same size and thread as our 914 tanks). I used the stock tank screen, cut the extension that goes outside of the existing tank off so you only had the extension going inside and then the CB adapter. Then I went AN all the way back to the engine. I created a thread on plumbing the fuel system for my 3.2l conversion which shows the components for the tank, fuel pump, tunnel and engine compartment.
Link: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...619&hl=fuel |
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