hello hello thanks for tuning in all right we finally got the ef fuel tank in because the one
on the left was all rusted up the one on the right is the new aftermarket one it's just a
ebay amazon off the shelf type one from taiwan we're gonna go over the differences between them
whether they're worth it or not and if everything's gonna work so
when we take a quick glance at it everything seems to be okay i mean there's slight um i guess mold
differences if you can see down this area here and this area here looks like on the oem tank it's got
a little more room coming towards the bottom and this is kind of cut off other than that it has the
fill neck and everything else the overflow and the evap system has the fuel pump hanger area and the
sending unit area the little humps are there looks like all the tabs are present and again this one
is just more smooth and this one kind of just cuts off if you see so there is a noticeable difference
out here it looks like this sticks out maybe a little further
possibly but overall the general dimension is about the same
the big thing i noticed was in here now if you see let me zoom in for you
we had a whole bunch of uh
a little rust in there and you can see i had to get let me see if i can get a better shot for you
it's all rusty and there's a huge baffle right there as soon as you look in
the thing i noticed about the uh the aftermarket one there's no baffle so
there's no baffle down there nothing so i assume that there's gonna be fuel slosh your
sending unit might be showing you know different readings at different times
i did notice there was a difference with the aftermarket fuel pump as well
so i'll show that once we get it out here and get everything going to hang in
so there are some notable differences hopefully doesn't affect anything
and we'll go through the best combination that i found and like i said hopefully it works out first
thing we want to do is go ahead and transfer over all these rubber pads they just kind of peel off
if one breaks or it doesn't come off it's not nothing to be worried about
just go ahead and peel off each one of those and stick them back in the
spots that they have to go on the new tank maybe a little bit of silicone to do that
okay we transferred over all the old rubber strips onto the new tank
except we just used some silicone that center one right there just kept breaking apart so we left it
off and just spaced that one a little bit further up about an inch kind of take up some of the slack
another thing we wanted to point out was the fuel pump that's the oem one if you see how the sock
goes off to the right there the aftermarket one the sock is even on both sides uh the pump is
quite a bit smaller the one thing i did notice is that this hanger hangs lower than this one
so that may compensate for that sock being larger and off to the left and for them uh baffles
missing in there so hopefully the aftermarket tank with the aftermarket fuel pump will work out fine
i did get a oem honda sending unit
so we'll get all that in so the very next thing you want to kind of do is blow out the
gas tank and make sure there's no debris in there and go ahead and set the fuel pump down in there
all right get your gasket on your fuel pump and it goes down in and to the
right if you're looking at the back of the tank like it was in the car goes down into the right
and it just sits right on there bam
so we'll get the nuts tightened on there and get this bracket in the right spot
all right the next issue we ran into was with the fuel pump hanger
i believe that's the return line the tab there i had to bend it up because
if you look at the oem one it sits on there flush but on that one it doesn't make it
so not a big deal how to fight with a little bit bend it up that's good to go so we'll get the um
sending unit out here now all right i was fortunate enough to get a genuine
honda sending unit so that's an oem honda sending unit oem honda gasket and oem honda lock
so this is very easy to go in you see the pump is now in front of me there's the hole stick it in
turn it to the right and straight forward all the way down you have a locating tab right there
where it locates once you got that on you take your slip ring you put it on and tap each one
of the tabs around so let me get that in all right once you get the fuel pump hanger assembly in and
the fuel level sending unit in start transferring over all the little clips that hold the
wiring down onto the side of the tank transfer them over into the exact same spot re-route the
wiring harness around we're going to take off all the evap and hose accessories there we're gonna
have to take one hose off of the fuel hanger to reuse because it has the fuel dampener nut
right there uh we're gonna wash everything up and get it looking good before we put it back on the
new tank all right we got the harness routed back up on here one thing to note these tabs
were bent straight out so i had to bend each one of the tabs up to put the wiring harness
but it fit everything went around and it's sitting there nicely ready to go back into the car
all right the tank for the most part is complete the only thing we got to transfer over is the
fuel neck hoses and the evap system which is all over here and one fuel hose so we're gonna clean
everything up get it all on there all right started raining out we had to take a break but
we got everything back on as you can see the hose we transferred over onto the new fuel pump hanger
cleaned up the evap system a little bit got the hoses cleaned up and everything new clamps
center so we're gonna go ahead and send her on up and hopefully get this thing started
all right we just filled the hatch with gas the tank is in it looks beautiful under there
sit nice and pretty this is the first time i'm gonna turn the key
so we're gonna see what's gonna happen we'll listen for that fuel pump
oh there it is you heard it and we'll wait to see if the fuel gauge catches up
let me go check out there and see what we got going on
all right we got fuel up to the fuel filter let me close off that bleeder real quick all right
the fuel gauge is probably right because i only put about two gallons in it let's see if it starts
oh i tried let's try one more time
it runs look at that amazing
all right we have a fully running car now that is great so we got the fuel tank in everything's up
now we'll start cleaning out and getting everything situated
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