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dutch wrote: Tue Aug 27, 2024 2:40 pm nice seats Scott. Are they lower than the factory seats?

Yeah maybe inch or 2. I'm only 5'6 but it didn't seem that noticeable. Probably because I sank so low in the originals

528i-1981 wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 8:53 pm

dutch wrote: Fri Aug 23, 2024 9:17 am Tank looks like new inside so I`ll weld it.

Mine's pretty clean as well, at least from what I can see from the lifting pump hole. I'll need to find a welder that know's what he's doing.

OK, so tank's off the car and ... wrong! It's a bit of a mess inside, rust everywhere. And my in-tank pre-pump has clumps of rust that resemble barnacles, luckily I picked up a spare awhile ago. I've ordered a new tank, which is truly horrible from a budgetary perspective. But I can't risk buying another clean-looking one on eBay with a leaky seam weld, which is where this started.

Does anyone know of a good substitute for the foam "base" strips on top of the tank? I was thinking closed-cell neoprene, which is gasoline resistant, but the original strips are open cell of unknown composition. Do I even care about gasoline resistance for an insulator outside the tank? I might be overthinking this, but the old strips were pretty nasty after absorbing 40+ years of crud.

528i-1981 wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2025 11:40 pm
Does anyone know of a good substitute for the foam "base" strips on top of the tank? I was thinking closed-cell neoprene, which is gasoline resistant, but the original strips are open cell of unknown composition. Do I even care about gasoline resistance for an insulator outside the tank? I might be overthinking this, but the old strips were pretty nasty after absorbing 40+ years of crud.

Maybe I'm too reckless, but I"d just get some foam weatherstripping and put it down. Weak adhesive but some and with tank that doesn't leak I wouldn't worry about gasoline resistance.

I'd replace the weatherstripping foam on top of the tank, but it shouldn't see any gasoline, so that criterion should not matter. I got a new 70L tank for the Euro restoration car, but still need to do the project. I figured it was a certainty I probably wouldn't like what I find, so bought it up front.