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A 15mm right angled tank connector from the plumbers merchant may be worth a look
as they are straight forward (except for the 90 degree bend).
They are all brass construction and used in the bottom of water tanks.
You can get good wasers to fit. In my opinion fiber would be the best washer option
as nobody is going to be able to tell you what the plastic ones are safe with.
The fiber ones are normaly fuel safe
as the are used on oil fired c/heating applications (check though).

The olived compression fitting recieves a piece of 15mm copper pipe
which you can step down in size (micro bore central heating copper pipe
end feed fittings) using solderd fittings. B&Q have them i think.

Or ask a Oil centralheating man maybe.
goodluck

Have you got anywhere with this Neil?
I can see this being a big problem for all syncro owners in the near future, along with other parts being affected by old age...
(drivers not included)

See if you had a diesel neil you wouldn't have petrol problems

i have sealed the spigot outlet from the inside of the tank with an epoxy resin that is made for plastic fuel tanks, the instructions say that the product will cure fully in 24h, so i will be going back to it after work fuel up the tank and test it,fingers crossed. if it dose not work i will plug the old out let and and drill a new one,

neil

jebiga41 wrote:See if you had a diesel neil you wouldn't have petrol problems

dont diesels have an out let at the bottom of the tank? i guess that the tank straps dont rot on diesel either?

neil

yes they do but no petrol problems

A diesel leak costs you more per drip in lost mileage. How's about that for warped logic?

silverbullet wrote:A diesel leak costs you more per drip in lost mileage. How's about that for warped logic?

But less in burning van terms

axeman wrote:i have sealed the spigot outlet from the inside of the tank with an epoxy resin that is made for plastic fuel tanks, the instructions say that the product will cure fully in 24h, so i will be going back to it after work fuel up the tank and test it,fingers crossed. if it dose not work i will plug the old out let and and drill a new one,

neil

Hope it works out neil fingers x'd for ya

jebiga41 wrote:

silverbullet wrote:A diesel leak costs you more per drip in lost mileage. How's about that for warped logic?

But less in burning van terms

Funny thing is: I know someone who used to run a fleet of Diesel T3 vans as service vehicles "back in the day" and they was not unknown for engine fires even when new!!!

Do you just make this up as you go along?

Simon Baxter wrote:Do you just make this up as you go along?

*snigger*

jed

Simon Baxter wrote:Do you just make this up as you go along?

Nope. Straight up. He had at least 3 go up in flames on the motorway from a fleet of 30-odd. All diesels.
Not fuel fires like a petrol, but the hot turbo catching the underseal and sound deadening on fire...

I saw the man in question today. He used to import TD panel vans 20 or 30 at a time for Vaillant Boilers service engineers (cheaper than buying through the UK dealership) specially painted in the corporate colour, a bluey-green aquamarine (all were sold off at 3 years old and lots were converted to campers - the giveaway is the colour code) Reckons he imported about 150 during his time there.
All got about 100 yards running in time, then were thrashed mercilessly...
The ones that went up were all from the same import batch, same story every time: blatting down the motorway and the driver notices the smoke from the rear, pulls over and by the time he's rung the AA he needs the Fire Brigade too! Totally burnt out in all cases.

So diesel Transporters did indeed have engine fires after all