[Staowners] PETROL FILLER PIPE

[Mal Clark]

Hi George Bob has plenty of the rubbers you are talking about trunk floor to 
filler pipe,email me on shadow74 at bigpond.com and I can get Bob to send you 
one, Regards Mal Clark.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Simpson - Forums" <george.simpson.forums at neuf.fr>
To: "Bob Hamilton" <hamilton at accesswave.ca>
Cc: "Sunbeam Talbot Alpine Owners Mailing List" 
<staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 5:54 AM
Subject: [Staowners] PETROL FILLER PIPE


> I'm just back from a 250 mile social rally around the Perigord area of
> the Dordogne, well known for good food!!!
>
> The sunny weather in the morning made for 'topless' motoring but a few
> spots of rain persuaded me to put up the hood when we went to lunch. It
> then started to rain, very heavily, and didn't stop all afternoon. After
> getting home, I emptied the trunk of our clothes and found, in the left
> hand depression deep in the back of the trunk, about 2" of water.
>
> After taking out everything else including the carpet, I tried to find
> where the water had come in .... it was simple. The boot floor where the
> fuel tank filler pipe passes through the boot was wet and covered in
> sand/small gravel. During the 3 hour drive back, the rear wheel must
> have been throwing up spray and road dirt underneath at the point where
> the petrol tank neck enters the trunk. I had had some damp in that area
> before but thought it was the trunk seal letting in water. I had changed
> this seal and all seemed well until today's atrocious conditions - we
> were diverted twice for road flooding and often running through standing
> water.
>
> I looked in the parts supply book under Petrol Tank and item 13 page 144
> is a grommet from the neck to the trunk floor. Having discovered how
> essential this is, where can I get one - Bamforth or the Mal's contact
> in Australia - has anyone made one up either with a rubber mat or a
> piece of inner tube?
>
> Any suggestions please
>
> George
> (decidedly damp in Cognac)
>
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