This is part of what I had wondered initially; frame rail alignment.
The PO receipts showed an accident FR. But....

Hammer aside,     ;)    it seems the real issue is long pipe placement
by my hand.

During swap to water cooling, fuel tank was out. I don't know if
there's stock holes for front pipe clamp screws. Regardless.... since
I mangled the pipe support clamp from the '85 parts van during
removal, I made *two* clamps to support the pipes. This created a
substantial gap between the pipes likely positioning passenger side
pipe too far over thus too close to tank shoulder thus not allowing it
to seat high enough up.

Details.  Hmmmpf.    ;)

Neil.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:43 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am aware that there were many coolant pipes, but almost any of them can be
> made to fit. Heck, I'm running 3 of 4 sections of pipe (all my pipes are cut
> in half) which are "left" pipes. And, they're from different years/models.
> (one piece is from a diesel).
> You can make anything work, and i'm unaware of any interference with the
> tank. I would assume your tank to be bent (or your frame rails?).
> Time for a hammer.

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