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Originally Posted by Coldjensens
Can't you cut a hole in the body to access it from the top?
Do you have to remove the exhaust system to lower the tank? (My car, you do).
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On my old cars I do cut access ports where ever i want and this is once place I have. I also make covers to screw on, and paint everything after deburring too.
of course NH is serious salt belt country, and serious leaves and pine needles too. So in any car or trucks i own, with rocker panels that have cowel vents where rain drains I cut open the thresholds and make stainless covers. If there IS a plastic threshold cover from the factory I do the same but make sure the Stainless is smaller in size.
That way i can open up the rockers and clean out leaves salty sand that always gets in there some how, and do what I want...
I run a garden hose in these , they air to dry and ten mist in ATF and OR if i really go nuts will stuff the drains full of paper towel and pour in a thin oil like ATF and let that soak into all the crimps and pinch welds a few days then add a mix of engine oil (new) and roofing cement to make a think slurry.
When I figure that mess has had time enough I pull the paper towel plug out with a wall paper tray to catch the mess.....
That can end rocker rot pretty well.
But no ordinary tech will do the things i do..... people would freak out. I recall a test drive on a XKE Jag with the owner... he has a over heating problem which he said would come and go. He has a T stat too, but refused to replace it wanting to know for sure if he must...
He must....
So armed with everything except a gasket off we went...... it was all his parts and his coolant too, something sometimes i didn't mind that much...
But that t stat seized up and blew the coolant out the cap making a mess.... There was no gasket and so I used the box the T stat came in, and did that guy ever freak out.....
I told him he could walk back but I was going to drive his car...
Oh well
Drop the exhaust? Maybe..... I don't know ever car there is anymore... You have to remove what ever IS in the way... That varries.........
Engineers these days don't seem to ever get dirty, maybe ink if that once in a while but they are cleaner than girls, and so they put things in the damdest places...
On a Dodge truck a few years ago it took me 10 hours to get a EGR valve replaced because the engineers stuffed it in a tight spot near the fire wall, and all sorts of things had to come out to get at it....
Bunch of brain dead engineers and some bean counters had to be responsible for that.
They don't care. I recall older 60's vintage Volvo had 5 screws on a heater motor plate to pull to yank the whole motor..... Could get better than that...
Then the 240 series they stuffed the motor into a housing with 2 squirrel cage fans and went to cheap plastic carbon brush holders which melted DUH! And by the book it was a 10 hour job.. recalled, because new wave engineers don't get dirty..... To me there is no excuse for these stupid designs.