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Old 04-14-2007, 10:19 PM   #100
Yukon Jack
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Re: I lifted the hood on the Blazer . . .

Picked up my tank yesterday from the radiator shop after the guy took my filler tube off the old tank and soldered it onto the new tank. When I went to install the tank still had interference problems. The neck needed to be bent a bit different. Rather than screw with having to take it back to him to modify, I ended up cutting the filler neck off of the tank and used about a 4" piece of fuel hose that goes directly off of the tank then to the old filler neck that was attached to the tank. That fixed my problem.

So, for me, it would have been cheaper to have just left the new tank like it was when I bought it, hack sawed off the neck from my old tank and used the short piece of rubber fuel hose to connect the two.

Drove the K5 around the block and happy to report I am not having any hot start problems. Looks like the new starter and adjusting the timing has my K5 happy!
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