swapping Premier fuel tanks on a Gelscoe

moved to the chassis forum !

as my car is raced in international events, it needs new fuel tanks every 5 years. The old one where out of date, so new bladders and foams had to go in. The whole operation took us two guys about 3 days, also count the preparation for the swap.

The hardest part was to get the old ones out. We used lots of tyre mountimg grease and pushing, pulling and shoving. Both our arms look like after a bar brawl now !!

To get the new ones in, we closed the plate open8ngs with rubber foil and double sided tape, used a vacuum pump from our composite manufacturing and also lots of tyre mounting grease, as well as straps to tie it als together like a salami saussage. They were much easier to get in then out.

The tyres were off but the front suspensoin all stayed in place. We now have five years to heal our bruises !
 
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