heres the story....

current fuel tank on my s2 started leaking so i ordered a new one from someone on here - just said it was a ersts2 so expected the right one as he obviously knows his fords!

anyway, took it all apart today old tank out etc. and goes to put the new one in and the sender hole is roughly double the size of the original tanks hole

basically this is the tank I have:


and this is the tank I was sent:


it all fits bar the sender (albeit the vent is at the wrong angle but thats no biggy.

so anyway, i pm'd matey and he basically said that my old tank must be wrong (?) as all series 2s have a large sender....
is this correct?

He went on to say the small sender doesnt have a swirl pot, however i checked and it does...
so basically i have a small sender and a swirl pot; which apparantly isnt possible

who's right, and more importantly what should I do cos i need the thing moving cos its taking up someones garage atm....try and find a tank with a small sender and swirl pot or buy a large sender?

anyone had one out that can confirm whether im right/wrong?

ps. it is the original ford tank so i think im right

cheers

 

im sure the s2 sender has a big hole
mk3 tanks have the sender on the side so it isnt that

 

Rich ur right, them tanks are the SEL tanks arn't they. fcuk didnt think u would have this prob, check one of my old threads before I was gunna ordrer one of these (I rang them and they couldnt confirm they had swirl pot and small sender which mine is exactly like urs)

Thread here: https://passionford.com/forum/viewto...ight=fuel+tank

I used my old tank in the end and painted it up cos I knew I would have probs ordering one of those!

 

yeah ive had a good read through that adam, fookin confused just like you!

im glad yours is the same as mine confirms even more im right (not ordered from SEL btw but prob. was sourced from there)
cheers for that nigel, i duno tbh seems s2's are supposed to have a large sender but none of them actually do

 

Rich, Tricky seemed to know his stuff:

I got confused by their pics tho (the ones u have posted above) the holes are wrong as u say....I'd be tempted to buy an original ford one, I got a quote for one from fordpartsuk it was arounf £140 tho iirc

 

mines got large sender

 

He's the guy i ordered from

not blaming him really, he's obviously going by a book listing or whatever but its down to me to prove its wrong i think

 

cheers Lee, fook knows whats going on then....what year is yours maybe it really is an 89-90 thing as on SEL?
might have to try them adam ta...or maybe A.R.E etc might have more luck

 

89 G plate mate. IIRC my old 89 was same big sender

 

ah pish, there goes my theory then

any ford people able to confirm on the parts computer?

 

Early s2's had small hole sender.

 

mines an 89 G.

Rich, I could try get finis code if u want

 

your right rich, he sent the wrong tank, tell him your car has the original tank and hes a knob.

 

Mine has a large hole for the sender (89 F reg)and I got a replacement from ford and that had a large hole as well.

 

rich there will be part number on the tank take it to ford and find out what tank you need.

 

cheers all obviously 2 different ones in existance for no apparant reason
ill see if i can get a number off the old tank altho its pretty manky....didnt wanna get one from ford if i could help it tho ; pretty expensive!

 

got mine trade mate.I found an XR3i tank in the scrapyard but my mate said it would work fine until the car was really hot in the middle of summer and then i would have problems with the engine hunting because of the size of the swirl pot in the tank.The rs tanks swirl pot is bigger apparently?How do they get the pot in the tank?Might be before they weld it shut but surely not through that little hole?

 

before its sealed i would imagine.
can get staff discount from ford but thats it...might make it a bit more bearable will go on monday and at least find out why some cars had small and some large i suppose!

 

What? they will know that? You have good parts people! ours don't know shite!

If I can get on my other puter l8tr i'll try and find the numbers.

 

yeah f'boro ford are spot on actually, or one matey there is anyway

if you can that would be wikid mate

 

Rich,

I got two p/n for you.

firstly I think you will need: 6172223 08/89 - 08/90

also, I was quoted this from fordparts:

There is another tank listed also. early one, incase u want it: 1640749 01/86 - 05/89

HTH mate.

Adam.