When it rains ,it pours. This all started out with cleaning up the damage caused by a leaky battery, had the radiator out, fan off, dynamo off, basically had EVERYTHING off of the front, except the oil cooler. Got all that cleaned up and repainted. In my infinite wisdom I figured I would lube the 10 yr old tach cable while everything was exposed. So far so good. Got it all reassembled, fired it up to heat up the system and check for leaks, first thing I notice, the tach is not working. Well cable is not broke, because I just had it out to clean and lube it. Maybe it did not seat in the drive ? After 3 installs of the tach cable at the engine, I know its seated in there correct. Pull it out 1 more time, this time I hook the cordless drill to it at the engine end, guess what still no tach. Now, off comes the dash, lo and behold the knurled nut fell off the back of the tach. BUT after driving out the roll pin that held the throttle lever on, it goes sailing off into the depths of behind the dash. Now the whole dash has to come off to look for the pin. Upon getting the dash off, I notice the back of the fuel tank is all sucked in and COLLAPSED
mind you I just got this thing 2 weeks ago and had not really used it much yet,it was time for its 300 hr service so I figured, what better time to get to know what makes this thing tick. And yes the tach was working before all this started. So, any ideas WHY the tank collapsed, this cant be a common problem. While I have the tank out is there any thing ELSE I should do or check while waiting for the NEW tank to arrive. Dont really think its a good idea to try and salvage the old one. When I say collapsed I mean the back of the tank is sucked in 4-5 inches. SORRY for the long story,but I just had to get this off my chest. Thanks for any insight or ideas on this.
