Restoration, 2015
Fuel tank repair
There was gas smell in trunk and in my garage, so I suspected that my fuel tank has a leak, specially because seams of it are battered. So I decided to seal it inside. I did the outside some years ago and then the inside looked ok.
My car does not have original fuel pipes nor original pump but rubber fuel hose from tank output pipe to non-original pump. When removing that hose, I noticed it had a split. Most likely the smell came from that split and it also explains why fuel pump recently never stopped ticking when engine not running, it propably sucked air from that split. No problems in engine running though, so it managed to pump enough gas also.
But as I had already bought POR-15 Fuel Tank Sealing Kit, I decided to seal the tank anyway. After removing I put endoscope inside tank and like the photo shows, there was just little bit surface rust, no smudge of any kind.
And while washing the tank, I did not notice any leaks.
The filter had not much left (photo lower right), replaced with new one (photo lower left). I also used same sealer to fuel tank sender but did not open it, it works ok. The sealing process itself was quite easy. My garage is little bit chilly during winters, so to get final coating to dry I brought the tank inside my house. Horrible smell 12 hours! One of those moments I felt lucky to be single, I could imagine the comments from better half if there had been one... :)
The coating dried fine and I reinstalled tank and put new hose to replace the splitted one. No leaks, no smell and now the pump stops ticking when not running.
Remote central locking
I got tired to walk around the car to lock and open doors. So I bought an after-market remote central locking kit and installed it. Biggest job was to remove and install door panels (again, I must have done it 10 times already, getting pretty good at it).
The kit came with all necessary wiring and installation parts. It was quite easy to figure out which original levers are suitable for adding solenoid (and attached wire) to them. Also there was enough space for solenoids. I hid the central unit inside center console, so only visible sign of central locking are wires going to doors and those are visible only when door is open. So even this is of course totally out-of-period addition, nobody can see it. It is really nice to use, as we all know from the modern cars. And you should see the faces of people when you remote click doors open from a 55 year old car! :) Sometimes I say "Of course luxury Jaguar had central locking already in 60's!" :)