who knows what these are?Click to view attachment

I do. Super cool!

more info of course in the Vendor section.

Those are the nuts that secure the inlet outlet tubes to the bottom of the tank. I just took one of mine off an hour ago... But do you have the gasket that goes inside of them?

No fair! Mark knows everything!!!

I am betting you could make any gasket to fit that out of rubber you can find almost anywhere.

Some time with an xacto knife and patience.

Huh... That's brilliant. I never would have thought of that!

I had mine removed and welded on some -AN fittings. Much better IMHO.

Rubber compresses and can deteriorate when exposed to gasoline, the OE paper gaskets don't. I wouldn't risk it .

The Cap'n

I used teflon.

Neither would I. Hard to tell facetious in print. Last time I did this I made my own gasket out of sheet gasket material, but agonized over whether it would leak and cause a CarBQ...

Any pics of that? I may want to do this on my spare tank.... sounds like a much better way to go.

I may have to order some of these nuts Doc. They look purty

Yes, I am drooling over nuts

Jon, You know you are going to be quoted over and over on this...

Yeah, I really don't care. I've been made fun of my whole life. Just make sure you can take what you give out. Oh, that sounds a little off You know what I mean.... I'm going to stop typing now.

Geez Jon,

Are you already into the single malt? Maybe just breathing diaper fumes??

About a half a bottle of wine and no food..... and I'm at work at the coffe shop What a great job

I know! You and YOPU! I just wish she would make some money soon... Economy SUCKS...

No need to weld
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Paul

It was suggested to me that you use a little anti-sieze on the threads as well.

Antisieze is good on any threaded device if you think you will ever need to remove it again especially ss.

So why wouldn't I just reuse the ones I pulled off the tank and cleaned up?

I also need gaskets.

I found a nice thick fiber gasket at a plumbing supply place that worked perfectly.

No pics... I removed the tank and had the tank cleaned, removed the old fittings and some -6AN weld in bungs from Summit installed. Then I cleaned and sealed it with the POR-15 kit. Turned out really nice.



Hmmm... didn't see that thread. That would work too I suppose.

-Rob

I like the AN fitting idea personally.

Yes both the large and the small!

Welding fittings into the bottom of a gas tank when all one has to do is replace two nuts?????????

thats nuts!

in case you missed it the first time, George

Gasket that goes with this nut is a standard VW 311.201 235A or whatever the number is for the Beetle. This is the fuel screen side.

one shovel full at a time...

Well, there was more to it than that... I also replaced the stock fuel lines (in the tunnel) with the ones from Tangerine Racing. They have -AN fittings on both ends. Just makes for a much cleaner and worry free installation.