Chevelle updates

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Last fall before I put the car away for the winter I noticed a small gas leak coming from the top front of the tank, which probably explained the fuel smell in the garage...............I drove enough gas out of it and it went away, so I let it be over the winter as it was safe.

I brought the car back home last weekend and in between the various 409 projects I have going I decided to tear into the tank and see what the deal was . Dad and I made a minor repair to a couple of pinholes on the top of the tank after I acquired the car almost 40 years ago and I assumed that patch had finally failed.

I think the leak was actually the original rubber hoses on the fuel sender that had finally dried up as there did not appear to be any other leaks and the gas stain location lined up with the bad hoses. Since I have the tank out anyways I am thinking it might be time to just replace it with a Spectra one and be done with it (the top side of the original tank is pretty crusty) in addition to having the sender rebuilt (or replaced as it is crusty too). Another option is to take the original tank to my radiator guy who can clean it up and check it out, but the low costs of the replacements seem to make that a tough choice even though I'd like to retain original parts...........

Instrument Services who is local to me does the sender rebuilds so I might run up there to see what they think on the sender first and go from there.

While under the car it reminded of what a good candidate this thing might be for dry ice blasting as it was undercoated early in its life...............might have to look into that some more.