Fuel tank and tap

Unfortunately due to this job being a bloody nightmare, I decided to leave my camera upstairs just incase the stress got to me and it was used as a baseball. So I have no pictures, so please, read the text, and after close your eyes for a moment and picture the scene.

1 new petrol tank, 1 new fuel tap, one fuel tap, one fuel tap tool

In order to screw in the new fuel tap you have to use the special fuel tap tool, see below:




As you can see its like a long screwdriver, basically all you need to do is open up the fuel tank lid and then slide in the tool.




So then, pretty simple you may think, and here in lies the problems. Firstly, because these tools a reproductions and made for a number of different scooter models, this one was too big to fit in the hole, so a little bit of grinding was required in order to fit in the hole. Next was the problem of actually screwing the fuel tap in, this was basically done blindfolded as you needed to bolt a screw over the fule tap at the bottom of the tank and then whislt doing so, screwing the other side of the screwpat on the other side of the tank. Basically, it took fricking ages.

But anyway all went pretty well and I now have a new tank and tap all ready to be fitted.