Thanks again everybody. I'm probably going to tackle this over the weekend. I have a Sanden AC compressor that's very close to the tank. I hope I can get it out with out having to remove the Sanden.... Greg
What I've done in the past to remove the tank is to swing it through an arc (see attached sketch) so the skinny top portion is facing down in the rear area of the wheelwell arch. The rear portion of the wheelwell arch is more open than the front of the wheelwell arch. If you try to remove it from the front or top portion of the wheelwell arch, you will hit the lip of the fender. I also recommend removing the lines to the cannister before doing this. You will need to finagle the tank a little, but this open area in the rear of the wheelwell provides room to finagle. Once the top portion of the tank is clear of the wheel components you have even more room to clear the fatter, lower portion of the tank. Image Unavailable, Please Login
tnowak, I appreciate the tip. My first reaction to your suggestion was: "Wow, is there enough room to move the tank fore to aft, with that arc?" I guess there is..! Thanks, I'll give it a shot. Greg PS--Congrats on your 1st post. Fill out your profile, so we can know more about you!
It is kind of hard to explain, but what you will be doing is rotating the top of the tank so the back side of the upper part of the tank (it is relatively thin) will be in front of the hub. Then you will be rotating the tank (top facing down) through an arc towards the rearward portion of the wheelwell, using approximately the center of the hub as the swing point of swinging the tank through the arc from front to back. The additional clearance of the thin portion of the tank in front of the hub assembly provides the room to rotate the tank.
Got it, thanks... I really appreciate all the tips, everybody.... I'll post my adventure later.. Greg
I found a couple of pictures. Step one shows removing the top portion of the tank out from the wheelwell. Step two shows rotating the top portion of the tank towards the front of the hub. The third step would be to rotate the tank towards the back using the hub c/l as the approximate pivot point, then pulling the tank out. Sorry about not having a step 3 picture, but I didn't have enough hands to shoot a pic when I did this. P.S. I had to zip the files, because they are larger than 800 x 800 Image Unavailable, Please Login