It's Friday night and I should be out at the bar chilling with the fellas, but instead, I'm feeling down and out.
Today, I was removing the Gas tank from the 89' K5 to do a bunch of mods to. Well, removing this tank was a lot harder than removing older tanks (ie 75' K5). On the new ones, the sending units has 2 flared lines with O-ring fitting adapters, that screw into (what looks like is) Braided steel lines.
the other line on the sending unit is not flared, and has a hose that goes on it and clamped. (just like the older model units).
Here are the three lines on the sending unit (you can see the two steel braided lines and the one with the hose is all the way on the left.
Here's the pic of the rubber hose I'm talking about that the older K5's use on their tanks.
And here is what happened. As I was removing one of the fittings on one of the lines, the line was so rusted, it twisted with the fitting and tore off.
Now, my question is, what are my options???
I'm thinking, one of them could be that I cut that torn line with a pipe cutter and cut the steel braided line off the other end and attatch a hose with a clamp, just like the other one. Do you guys see any problems in doing that??
Second, i'm thinking, I might have to get a new sending unit. But if I recall correctly, these things are damn pricey!!! Am I right? I think they were like $150 to $250, somewhere around there right? If so, that's wayyy too much just for one line. b/c the current unit works fine.
Anyhow, thanks for your help in advanced.
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Today, I was removing the Gas tank from the 89' K5 to do a bunch of mods to. Well, removing this tank was a lot harder than removing older tanks (ie 75' K5). On the new ones, the sending units has 2 flared lines with O-ring fitting adapters, that screw into (what looks like is) Braided steel lines.
the other line on the sending unit is not flared, and has a hose that goes on it and clamped. (just like the older model units).
Here are the three lines on the sending unit (you can see the two steel braided lines and the one with the hose is all the way on the left.
Here's the pic of the rubber hose I'm talking about that the older K5's use on their tanks.
And here is what happened. As I was removing one of the fittings on one of the lines, the line was so rusted, it twisted with the fitting and tore off.
Now, my question is, what are my options???
I'm thinking, one of them could be that I cut that torn line with a pipe cutter and cut the steel braided line off the other end and attatch a hose with a clamp, just like the other one. Do you guys see any problems in doing that??
Second, i'm thinking, I might have to get a new sending unit. But if I recall correctly, these things are damn pricey!!! Am I right? I think they were like $150 to $250, somewhere around there right? If so, that's wayyy too much just for one line. b/c the current unit works fine.
Anyhow, thanks for your help in advanced.
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I'm in for the night 
