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Re: MGB fuel tanks

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MGB fuel tanks
From: mgb72@airmail.net
Date: Mon, 27 May 96 17:50:56 -0500 (CDT)
>To: mgs-owner@autox.team.net
>From: mgb72@airmail.net
>Subject: Re: MGB fuel tanks
>
>>  Like, I suspect, many other members of this list (are we mad?),
>>I celebrated the holiday weekend by putting my '73 MGB up on
>>axle stands and getting underneath to check the underseal. I wasn't
>>happy when I found that the bottom of my fuel tank was black 
>>and damp and oozing petrol! I need a new tank - but how do I drain 
>>the existing one? (apart from leaving it to drip itself dry for a 
>>month or two!). The Haynes manual and the Moss parts book both 
>>illustrate a drain plug somewhere on the tank, but despite groping 
>>around with an inspection light I can't find it. Where should it be?
>>
>>  Thanks in advance for any help,
>>
>>                                                   Ian
>>
>only certain years had those nifty drain plugs,  (those who did exist were
right in the middle of the tank, the lowest point).
>The best alternative I have found is to drive the car until almost empty
then removing the tank.  (the previous assumes of course that the car is
operable).
>Hope this helps
>Chad ------Dallas Tx
>72 B (daily driver)
>     
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