Tank in time out

 The fuel tank is fitted. It was easy enough using a bolt kit from MGHive. It was all painted matt black, twice and three times on its top surface. Offcuts of foamy sound deadening used as spacer cushions.

Fuel sender unit located easily enough in boot space. Attatching the hose to the fuel tank easy. Twas a new section of fuel line and quite a tight fit but eased on with some vaseline. However, attatching it to pump was not. Also I did not have the correct size jubilee clips, just a mish mash of clips and springs. To make matters worse fixing the new hose to the metal end of long fuel line and fitting the other end to the pump was not fun. It was very tricky with lots of swearing, during which I found the live feed which was crusty and brittle. It also ran a snaking route around the fuel line and earth connections. 

I bit the bullitt and added a new section of the correct colour from my " spares - electrical" collection, double insulated it well and heatshrinked it on .

But that was enough, it was cold wet dark and breezy. 

I left it there till the weather improves. I did want to run the engine but decided against. The water had been drained anyway. So a liberal dose of WD40 all around and thats how I left it.

It has a nice new multilayered waterproof cover over it, several lengths of carpet under that and a tight nylon over over all of that.

I may recover the rear seats or refurb the fuel cap. One good piece of news is I found filler cap key .

More soon-ish.