<VV> Easy Question

[Tony Underwood]

At 02:30 hours 08/20/2004 -0700, Tony Underwood wrote:
>At 01:53 hours 08/20/2004 -0400, Mike wrote:
>>Dropping gas tank on 1966 Monza:
>>
>>Looking for helping hints/lessons learned.
>>
>>I have drained the tank (mostly)
>>Strut rod is off...
>
>...strut rod?   Do you mean swaybar?    
>
>
>
>>What now?
>
>Well, if it's the sway bar that's off, you soak the cage nuts with PB   

Freudian slip.   

That's strap J-BOLT NUTS, not cage nuts.    



>Blaster if they're balky and won't let the strap bolts unscrew without a
>fight (they're the things the strap bolts   

...j-bolt nuts... 

> screw into) and let it soak in
>for an hour, then spray 'em again if it's still hard to unscrew the strap
>bolts.   

...j-bolt nuts...

>Once things are unstuck, then unscrew the passenger side strap
>bolt  

...nut...

>and almost unscrew the driver side bolt 

...nut...

>until it's almost out of the
>cage nut.   

...j-bolt...    

>Then hit the filler spout neck with a load of WD40 if you
>haven't already, to allow the rubber gasket/grommet to pop out.   Just push
>it down the filler spout, remove it later to put back on from the top.
>Don't forget to remove the filler cap.   You should have already removed
>the sending unit ground wire from the tunnel pan and unplugged the
>connector wire from its stud on the sending unit, and of course removed the
>small piece of rubber hose from the sending unit outlet fitting.  Then you
>can remove the remaining bolt 

...nut and j-bolt...

>and the strap and wiggle the tank down and
>out if someone helps with the filler spout nonsense... even if they don't,
>you can  still get it out, no big terrible deal.    


I've been yanking on too many front suspensions lately...  can't get my
hardware nomenclatures right.   


tony..