Paint & fuel line fitting

A few days ago my seam sealer arrived from Innotec so all of the seams as recommenced in the Triumph workshop manual and any other places which have been welded have had a coating. With the Adheseal it is best painted within four hours of laying the stuff down, so on the same night I made a start on painting the interior panels of the GT6. A couple coats have gone down now and once it has had another coat and has cured the sound deadening will go down of top.

Meanwhile, the fuel system install has been moving on with the Pressure Release Valve (PRV) being mounted on the rear tunnel and the pipework from it to the metering unit also being almost finished. I ended up getting a copper fuel pipe from Rimmer Bros. to go from the PRV to the plastic fuel line, as I thought this would be easier to keep routed through the tunnel and away from any moving parts.

Fortunately the plastic fuel lines I have came with the remains of their chassis mounting clips, so with new inner retaining pieces they could be used again, not that drilling the holes for them were particularly easy as ideally you want to be at right angles to the piece you are drilling, but at the body tub is now securely on, access to the side of the chassis rails is somewhat limited.

I will also put some extra clips in the rear tunnel, just to make sure that the fuel lines are kept clear of any moving parts.

So far I have concentrated on the high pressure fuel system, there is another fuel pipe which runs from the front to the rear of the car, this is a lower pressure line, which carries excess fuel from the metering unit back to the fuel tank and runs parallel to the high pressure system along the chassis. As it comes to the back of the car and over the rear spring, the idea at present is to run this last section in copper, so it can be securely held to the panels and turn tighter corners than the plastic fuel line.