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Dropped a fuel tank on a BX14?

I need to drop the tank on the tesco value BX as it has a mystery leak from somewhere on its top end (im assuming its fuel pipe has gone with the unleaded fuel, just wondered how big or small a job this was (as ive never dropped a BX tank ever)
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Have you checked through the peep-hole under the back seat first?

The pipes are all accessible there and a new one can be threaded through to join up with the steel ones if you unclip and drop them a bit first.
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GT was pretty easy, it's just bolted into place.
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JayW wrote:Have you checked through the peep-hole under the back seat first?

The pipes are all accessible there and a new one can be threaded through to join up with the steel ones if you unclip and drop them a bit first.

Jay, thats may be a stroke of genius mate, hadnt even thought of that!!!

And Kitch, just unbolts huh? That applies to everything ever doesnt it :twisted:
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Well, it did for this one :lol:
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Stinkwheel wrote:Just unbolts huh? That applies to everything ever doesnt it :twisted:
Not if it's held on with screws! Or in the case of a BX: Superglue, sellotape, blu-tac, gaffer tape, staples, P40, epoxy, string, nails, drawing pins, more glue... ----^
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JayW wrote:
Stinkwheel wrote:Just unbolts huh? That applies to everything ever doesnt it :twisted:
Not if it's held on with screws! Or in the case of a BX: Superglue, sellotape, blu-tac, gaffer tape, staples, P40, epoxy, string, nails, drawing pins, more glue... ----^

Ah, youve seen my BX's then :?
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I have had the tank off mine. Assuming their all the same its fairly easy to get off (assuming the 5 bolts come undone). The hardest part for me was getting the height linkage off so the tank would drop. But personally I would try doing the pipes from above before dropping the tank.
Although if you dropped it you would have a good excuse to look for lurking rust...
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Stinkwheel wrote:Just unbolts huh? That applies to everything ever doesnt it :twisted:
Not if it's held on with screws! Or in the case of a BX: Superglue, sellotape, blu-tac, gaffer tape, staples, P40, epoxy, string, nails, drawing pins, more glue... ----^
You forgot to add welding wire to that list. Its brilliant for holding exhausts on :) :roll: :lol:.
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You forgot to add welding wire to that list. Its brilliant for holding exhausts on .
It doesn't stop the back box firing out the back of the car when it breaks off at 70ish mph on the M5 though :oops:
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citsncycles wrote:It doesn't stop the back box firing out the back of the car when it breaks off at 70ish mph on the M5 though :oops:
Now thats not helpful, did it manage not to hit anything else behind?
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Miraculously yes. I heard a couple of large bangs as it broke free, followed by a flapping sound which was the back bumper where the end mount had torn out. It was only when I was attaching an elastic strap underneath after pulling onto the hard shoulder that I realised the back box was missing. I looked back down the motorway in time to see the back box flicked into the verge (again without hitting another vehicle. I count myself very lucky that day!
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