420 fuel tank filters

[BookerME]

I made an interesting discovery on my 420’s fuel tanks. The bolt-in fuel filter on one tank has an additional internal bolt allowing me to drain the petrol without removing the filter itself. Very handy as it turned out.
Sadly, the other one didn’t, so I had to remove the filter itself resulting in a ‘slight’ fuel spill. Apart from that mishap, I was extremely fortunate to be able to unbolt the filter in place without removing or damaging the tank, albeit with a bit of gas pipe on the end of my socket T bar to get some leverage.
Neither of the spare tanks I had in the shed had this additional fitting and the part doesn’t appear in my official Daimler Spare Parts Catalogue.

The first image below shows the standard fitting, the second shows the additional bolt.

Mac Booker

[piman]

Hello Mac,

when composing a post, if you look to the left below the script window you see a green box 'Attachments' . Click that and it gives an option to download files from your computer. You should be able to post pictures that way?

Alec

[BookerME]

I’m embarrassed that it was so obvious! Thanks Alec.