[Spridgets] Gas Tanks

Kirk Hargreaves khargreaves2 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 20:15:22 MDT 2014


Canadian tank nearly 10 years ago . .  install was easy . . no fitment
issues . . . been fine . . no problems.


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Martyn Ridley <ridleymj at brant.net> wrote:

> The olive fitting is a brass compression fitting like a pitted olive with
> a channel through it for the (in this case) the fuel pipe.  It is used with
> a brass screw fitting, also with a channel through the centre, and in
> concert they form a seal.  Used on fuel lines and I believe brake pipes etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Martyn
>
>
> On 3/17/2014 6:59 PM, Jeff Kelly wrote:
>
>> I have seen the the olive fitting refereed to several times. Can you tell
>> me what that is?
>> Jeff Kelly
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Mark Haynes
>> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 2:10 PM
>> To: spridgets at autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Gas Tanks
>>
>> I bought one from brgparts.com for the MKII, and one for the MKI, both
>> fab'd
>> in Can'ada, both fit and work well. I, too, lament the loss of the drain
>> plug,
>> but its now a fact of life.... no fit problems at all, I replaced the
>> olive
>> and compression fitting on both as a matter of course to be sure that they
>> sealed.
>>
>>
>> Mark Haynes
>> It only goes one way-Pay it Forward
>>
>>
>> From: Larry <millerls at ado13.com>
>>
>> I have installed 2 of them on bugeyes. Fit is fine. Only thing I do not
>> like
>> is no drain plug.
>> Larry miller
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>  On Mar 16, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Billy Zoom <billyzoom at billyzoom.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Canadian tanks?
>>>
>>
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