Just an update on the project today. I finally started to work on it today. I would like to say it was smooth sailing, but let's just say it isn't quite done yet.
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. This is a long post, so you better be sitting down. There are lots of pictures though.
Here's the Hydramat
There is a nice color booklet too...
Fastback427, here are some pics of my AN setup
Here is the resistor I used to correct the fuel gauge. Note the resistor is installed in
parallel with the float.
I decided to shed some light on the matter, so I made a window in the old tank to make mockup easier.
I thought I had all the fittings I should need.(straight npt to AN adpater not pictured)
Holley says not to use any sealer on the fittings, OK
I found out why I had a starvation problem...
Over half an inch! Plus the tank was dented...
Starting to mock things up...
I saw this tube was going to be in the way, and since it does nothing past the float housing, off it came.
Talk about a square peg in a round hole!
I will have to put it in another way, but it WILL just barely go.
Well, as much as I wanted to go the full AN route, it was clear it was never going to go into the tank that way or come out, so I decided to go the way they show in the booklet.
Luckily I had most of the fittings already, so I wasn't really out much.
I cut almost exactly 1 3/4" off the tube and bent it up like this
Now it looks like it may work...
They also want the return to spray back on the Hydramat. I wanted to use a 3/8" tube and bend it the way I needed, but I found out the hole was already 7/16" and now I had to try for 1/2" tubing and hope it fits. It didn't.
So now, my next step was to use a 1/4" NPT fitting to 3/8" hose. The fitting fit nicely in the 1/2" hole. I also added a spring inside the hose to keep it from collapsing on the tight bend. Here is a mockup pic.
Now that I added that hose, I have to loosen the set screw for the float tube and pull it out of the pickup and wiggle it in after I start the hose going to the hydramat in the tank hole.Nothing is easy.
On to fixing the return hose fitting to stay and seal into the pickup. I rely on trusty JB Weld.
End scene for today, hope you enjoyed.(cuz I know I didn't
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