Installing new fuel pump and wiring - broke a connector!

[Dixiesys]

While trying to put that little black connector (the ground that is hooked to the metal tube in the tank) I broke the freakin little connector, can I just use a pipe clamp and clamp the ground straight back to the tube without the little connector? Or do I really need to put a new little connector thing on there?

http://www.racetronix.com/product/RX.../Dcp_3061a.jpg

On that picture it almost looks like there is a ground pipe clamped straight to the tube there, can I just do that to make a good ground or is this a bad idea?

[PaCemkr86]

just solder the wire to the pipe

[Keller]

Soldering it would be much better. A clamp could come off. That might cause the pump to become intermittent.

You may need to rough up the area with sandpaper in order to get to get the solder to stick.

[Dixiesys]

OK it's soldered just waiting on Napa to get my new fuel tank. My tank has a big patch on it from I guess a hole sometimes in the past, and it has a little more rust on the outside then I feel comfortable with and some crud in the bottom of it that I can't get washed out, it's like under the plastic baffles so I figured while I had it all apart, put a new tank on it. Is there any reason I shouldn't paint it black before I put the tank in?

Also gotta put in the hotwire kit while I'm waiting.

[Keller]

Originally Posted by Dixiesys

My tank has a big patch on it

Is the "patch" a big rectangular thing right in the center of the bottom? If so, they all have that. Think its for noise cancellation.

[Dixiesys]

Yes it is! There's another one about half that size in width and about as long along the back of the tank too. So maybe it's not in as bad a shape as first thought, still a pretty goodly amount of pretty severe surface rust and one spot that was on the edge of the strap that worries me.



Plus it's got quite a bit of sediment I haven't gotten washed out good and the rim of where the fuel pump mounts is also awfully rusty looking. So I still feel like a new tank isn't a bad idea at least

[Keller]

Well, you could get the rust off with a wheel and shoot the tank with a good anti-rust paint. You aren't going to find a factory tank. The replacements are a little different. Not bad, but they aren't baffled the same. Not heard that that makes them bad or anything. Just not sure that I'd throw that tank away. YMMV.

[Dixiesys]

Several pics of my progress had to wait on Napa to get my new tank in then the paint I used took hours and hours to dry (it's still pretty soft and I sprayed the bottom of the tank this morning!

(click for bigger pictures and more pictures too)


I ran the fuel pump wire into the frame rail over the rear tires, seemed like the perfect way to run it and keep it out of harm's way at the same time, yes or no?

[PaCemkr86]

thats how i ran mine..

[Royal-T]

Originally Posted by Dixiesys

I ran the fuel pump wire into the frame rail over the rear tires, seemed like the perfect way to run it and keep it out of harm's way at the same time, yes or no?

ditto. perfect spot.