What is this petrol tank out of, its standard fitment in somthing ?
Let me know if you give up and Ill tell you !
What is this petrol tank out of, its standard fitment in somthing ?
Let me know if you give up and Ill tell you !
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Yep it's a South African Mk2's tank. I also have them fitted to both my Mk2's
Out of the beige mk2Originally Posted by darran
anyone got a picture of one fitted?
http://itsalmosttime.co.uk/blog/
Not the best pic but you get the ideaOriginally Posted by seventynine
is that as standard lol, looks like its been threw in
http://itsalmosttime.co.uk/blog/
Looks kinda busy in there but the tank sits above the rear axle which makes the weight distribution quite niceOriginally Posted by seventynine
I think back in the day there was a shortage of fuel which prompted Ford to use the bigger tanks but now we don't have that problem any more. We also have Escorts with the smaller tanks like you guys have but they were more for 1.3 etc.
Thats great can you take some more pics of the mountin points please
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Clint here u go : From the other side, this is pic I took when fitting tank to my mk1 which had origonally had side tank. I can take some pics of the straps for u if u need.
Thanks m8 I would like to see how the straps go
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Banishit, now that you've mentioned it, it is rather an odd way
We work in African time, so spending 20minutes filling tank is no concern to us. Only to chuck it all out the filler neck at the first bend
Yes they do dump petrol if the fuel cap seal's screwed.
Clint will post some pics 2morrow...
If you are looking for something similar, My Audi 90 Quattro had a tank upright behind the seats, very neat breather set up and already set up for injection, should fit an Escort
you can just see it in this pic
hth
dom
The filler neck running to the bottom is the best design, in SA the heat and flash fires could cause a problem so splashing the fuel into the tank causing lots of petrol fumes is a really bad idea, so by filling from under liquid level stops the splashing.
Normal Escort Tanks will throw fuel if the filler seal is screwed.
The point of this is that its a standard fitment tank and therefore is FIA legal.
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Did you see the long range tank that darran had for sale a while back,
plastic!
puddy
Banishit, I think only the Sport and later model escorts, 1981 being the last year of manufacturing had them fitted.
Clint, sorry for not getting the pics up yet, being getting home late, and my shed does'nt have lights in it, so I'll hall them out in the morning and snap them.
Here u go Clint,
If u need measurements let me know, I can lift the tank and make templates of the bracketry.
Cheers for that
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Sorry to drag an old thread up but thought I would add this to the discussion. My SA built MK2 Escort was built in 79 and has the long range fuel tank in. Its a 1.3L
hi all, im brand new here and have been looking for some info on this fuel tank for ages, so sorry to drag up an old thread. lol.
I bought a tank the same as this for my mk2 escort a while back but never fitted it as i was a little concerned about fuel starvation due to fuel slosh if the tank isn't real full??? Can anyone who's had experience of one of these tanks let me know if it's an issue or not please? My car is running a pretty much standard twin choke carb and original pump, used for "enthusiastic" road driving and the odd track day.
Thanks very much
shouldn't matter with carbs, the fuel in the float bowl will keep the engine running if the intake gets uncovered and then fill up again when the fuels back, loads of carbed cars have wide flat tanks with no baffles, injection engines suffer more because they lose fuel pressure when the pump sucks air and have no "reserve" in a float bowl like a carb does.
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