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Level 4 User Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 81

Ah, I suppose it says more about me that I assumed lying on the cold hard ground all night meant tramping it out in a park somewhere with a bottle in a paper bag Laughing

Was just changing a fuel tank myself recently acutally. Yours is evaporating from the fuel tank? Definitely not leaking from it?

Do you work in a garage? Do you not have lifts or at least trolleys?
I have fund that groundsheets (the kind for camping) are not bad for comfort on top of cold hard concrete!

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Nope self employed (sort of) and no lift Sad

Yes I have jacks etc, I just moan about going down on the ground these days.

I have been doing this crap since I was 12. I have served my time changing transit clutches by the road side with water running up my trouser leg and out my neck etc!

Tanks metal mae in 2 halves, its corroded along the seam, if you fill the tank over half way it pours out, so it only gets a 1/4 in it each time, the heat makes the fuel evapourate out the seam though.

Ground sheets are good but tend to get torn, covered in grime and they get in the way if you ned to move about.

Level 4 User Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 81

Oh, and eh... here's another Welsh pic I took:

in the Colwyn Bay area.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

looked like a nice day, seas calm as well.

Level 4 User Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 81

Chris H wrote:

I have served my time changing transit clutches by the road side with water running up my trouser leg and out my neck etc!

Well that's what'll happen if you go to the toilet upside down Laughing

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Tanks metal mae in 2 halves, its corroded along the seam, if you fill the tank over half way it pours out, so it only gets a 1/4 in it each time, the heat makes the fuel evapourate out the seam though.

Exactly the same with a fuel tank of mine. Just got another one from a scrapped car, checked it didn't leak first and then spent a while treating the surface rust and hammeriting it.

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Ground sheets are good but tend to get torn, covered in grime and they get in the way if you ned to move about.

Yeah that's true alright. Still, they're not bad I reckon.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

got the tank from my old blue prima out the back to put on which is in good nick.

Problem is the bolts like to shear that hold the tanks on! The underside of the red car has a lot of surface corrosion, it lived beside the sea most of its life you see.

Sump etc is very rusty, the engine is also oil tight so theres been no rustproofing oil leaks either!

Level 4 User Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 81

Yeah, never thought of leaky engines as a rustproofing measure!

As for cars rusting by the sea, I've always lived near the sea and don't have rust problems although cars in UK seem to have more of a problem with rust. I reckon that unless you're living directly in the path of the sea breeze where you're actually getting sea spray then living by the sea isn't the cause of rust. I'm pretty sure it's that in the UK you tend to salt and grit your roads quite often, whereas here, we don't because well... our county councils couldn't be arsed I suppose.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yeah we get a lot of salt but its normally inland and the cars don't suffer aside from in the wheel archs from that.

Seaside cars tend to have corrosion everywhere!

Level 10 User Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 621

I can second that Chris, I live close enough to the sea to notice rust appearing on my cars more than other cars that don't live so close. I was using a huge bit of cardboard for a while under the car, but I gave up, waste of time, it moved about and got manky with me walking all over it.