In tank pump

dogsbody · Jul 10, 2010

Oh Canyon, dear Canyon.
I hope that your tape measure agrees with mine.

I'm just stepping outside to chop a hole in my beloved Rangie to, hopefully, replace the in-tank pump.

I've got four pairs of clean underpants ready, I hope that's enough.

If it doesn't go well SHE reckons she's going to find an undertaker who'll bury me in it. She wasn't precise on whether she was going to wait for me to die first, just as long as the Rangie's dead.

It's all right for her, she drives a Focus. She just turns the key and it goes. Once a year she gets an M.O.T. with no drama.

Pete The Biker · Jul 10, 2010

Good luck Dogsbody!

Just take it steady and think not once, not twice, but three times before cutting, bending, snapping or otherwise mangling anything!

Let us know how it goes.

I have recently returned to the Range Rover fold but having read all the tales of woe about P38s I am glad to have the simplicity of my 1988 3.5 EFI!

Pete

woogoo · Jul 10, 2010

I had my tank pump replaced some time ago by the garage and they dropped the tank to do it. When I got the car back I went off to fill it up, and left about 20 litres of diesel on the forecourt.

Oh! they were none to pleased, had to shut the garage down, cordon it off etc. while they cleared up the spill, wouldn't allow me to start my car or anything. Then they realised that it would have to be move as most of the fuel was under it. So they insisted that it got pushed out of forecourt on to the road. The only funny thing about it was their red faced as the heaved and grunted to shift it's 2.5 tonnes out of the way.

The cause of the leak, was down to the filler tube not being mated correctly with the tank apparently.

dogsbody · Jul 10, 2010

CANYON I love you.

A Saturday morning well spent. I've now got a Rangie that starts first turn of the key. It's never done that since I've owned it!

A couple of comments. I used a mini grinder so I removed the entire back seat and draped everything else in damp towels to catch the sparks. Given the choice in the future I'd probably prefer a nibbler. Then, having cut the hole I had a sudden thought. What if I peeled it back to find a shiny new pump fitted by the last owner. Thankfully it looked like the original (96k on the clock). The pipe nuts were two heaps of rust but were not that difficult to split. The plastic ring was another matter. I split my piece of wood trying to get that started. I ended up with a metal wedge, but it unscrewed eventually.

All in all I'm quite pleased with myself. A bit of a drive around, a double check for leaks and I'll be folding the floor back down and fitting my wee extra metal flap with a couple of self tappers, a bit of silicone to seal it all round and that's a job, that I wasn't looking forward to, done.

Again MANY, MANY thanks to CANYON for his excellent post with pictures and measurements without which I wouldn't have dreamed of doing this job myself.

Irishrover · Jul 10, 2010

Now that's the sort of post I like to see....:clap2::clap2:

Canyon · Jul 10, 2010

dogsbody said:
CANYON I love you.

A Saturday morning well spent. I've now got a Rangie that starts first turn of the key. It's never done that since I've owned it!

A couple of comments. I used a mini grinder so I removed the entire back seat and draped everything else in damp towels to catch the sparks. Given the choice in the future I'd probably prefer a nibbler. Then, having cut the hole I had a sudden thought. What if I peeled it back to find a shiny new pump fitted by the last owner. Thankfully it looked like the original (96k on the clock). The pipe nuts were two heaps of rust but were not that difficult to split. The plastic ring was another matter. I split my piece of wood trying to get that started. I ended up with a metal wedge, but it unscrewed eventually.

All in all I'm quite pleased with myself. A bit of a drive around, a double check for leaks and I'll be folding the floor back down and fitting my wee extra metal flap with a couple of self tappers, a bit of silicone to seal it all round and that's a job, that I wasn't looking forward to, done.

Again MANY, MANY thanks to CANYON for his excellent post with pictures and measurements without which I wouldn't have dreamed of doing this job myself.

Your more than welcome! You can buy me a beer...!

Curious to know accurately you followed it...

I hope many others can benefit from my write up, I really want to do a few more tutorials, stuff like fixing heated seats, lock replacement, brakes and eas stuff.

dogsbody · Jul 11, 2010

Canyon

It was the pictures and the measurements that made it. I read the words a few times so that I understood but having print-offs of the pictures in the back of the car as I did the job made it.

For example, one silly point. Before I cut obviously I was nervous about my measuring but with the pictures I could see the highs and lows in the floor. Comparing this with your photographs gave a double check.

Again thanks and I look forward to any more that you do.

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