Re: [Amc-list] 63 Classic gask tanks

[Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On sunday I went to my cabin and was going to try to start my '77 J10 shortbox (I have someone who wants the running 4 bbl 360/T18A/D20 for the $500 I have them posted for) when I decided to check the gas in my portable tank (It was fresh at Christmas time) We were trying to get a bonfire going (to help melt the snow. Even the blow torch under a tarp didn't help much, but it did melt the tarp!) so I tossed the gas on as starter fluid. Even with the torch turned on top, it would hardly burn! Put fresh gas in the can and tried to fire it. No dice! Spritzed a little fresh in the carb, and it hicupped, then ran like it had been just tuned up!
  PO of this truck has some weird electric gizmos hooked into the BID ignition system (all that stuff is coming out as I'll keep the points and HEI coil on the 304 which have worked flawlessly, even when the truck was upside down!) It looks almost like someone took apart an MSD box and spread the parts all over the top of the inner fender!
   I'll be swapping out this gas tank with the one in my '73 J4000 until I can afford to get the LPG system hooked up. Looking at a large fuel tank so I can refill at home too!

Jim Blair, Lynnwood, WA '87 Comanche, '83 Jeep J10, '84 Jeep J10
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Amc-list] 63 Classic gask tanks
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, hydeparker@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
 
> You make it sound so easy when you write "popped out the sender"!  My experience with these is that they're pretty well rusted on, and those three little prongs are weak and want to bend rather than allow you to put force on them to turn them.
 
(I wrote that 'sender' bit in response to Joe...)
 
I've never had one hard to remove, but I've never removed one
from an East Coast car...
 
Do you mean, the flat ring with three tabs, that pushes the
sender unit onto it's O-ring, that "bayonets" into the tank's
three protrusions?
 
I just rap each of them anti-clockwise with a screwdriver bit,
with my palm or small block of wood, doing each so it moves
about 1/8" or so, after two - three times around it comes out
pretty easily.
 
> Also, this tank has a think layer of Brown Gunk in the bottom, but appears to be a very solid tank otherwise.  Suggestions on what de-gunkifying solution to use?
 
In the past, I think it is true that you really could drive on old gas.
The stuff today gets REALLY NASTY.
 
http://wps.com/AMC/1963-Rambler-American/Gas-tank/
 
I wish I could say it was an easy job -- it wasn't. Hopefully
yours isn't this bad. Mine bent pushrods and needed a valve job,
that's how bad gas tank gunk can be.

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