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BTW, your situation is the reason I paid someone to replace my pump. Anytime you are playing in gasoline you are playing with fire. Having the right tools to do the job makes it a lot easier and a lot safer. Not only did they have a lift to put the car on, they had a big jack to lift the tank. It probably would have taken me most of a day, or more, to do it laying on my back. These guys did it in about an hour and a half and that included them taking the time to eat a Hardee's biscuit. 🙂

My daughter fusses at me for not recycling plastid water bottles and cardboard. She says if my generation had done more to keep the environment clean it wouldn't be in such bad shape now., implying that my generation did nothing to stop pollution of the environment Later on I found the following and emailed it to her. She hasn't mentioned recycling to me since. The older people here will understand the moral of the story. --------------------------------------------------- This Green Thing Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment, The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." The older lady said that she was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then. We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day. Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day. Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the "green thing" back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation.

Just saying, how many tan tops on red convertibles have you seen.......bunches. How many black tops on red convertibles have you seen...........not many. The tan top says "I am a cool car" whereas the black top says "I am a hot car."

I think I got my car back. Yesterday was a rough day where I put over 300 miles and got about 21 miles a gallon, so I went through a lot of fuel. So today I put back in the ECM that came with the car. You might remember I had an ignition/running issue that turned out to be a loose Crank sensor. I swapped numerous parts including the ECM trying to track it down, so when I started having e042 codes I really thought that it was I should swap back in. Glad I did as the car runs so much smoother. Tomorrow I swap out the muffler as I have a rather sizeable seam split. The one I'm replacing is an aftermarket one that the original owner installed. Then I should be done for awhile again...

Jack the car up to get the tank as high as possible. Leave the gas cap off. Disconnect the fuel line at the frame (see photo) Connect a hose to the fuel line. The hose will have to fit the fuel line tightly so no air can get in. Then you can use the hose to siphon the gas out of the tank. Let gravity do the work.

I think it is called a vacuum manifold or junction. Usually easy to find at the junkyards, used on a ton of GM cars with the same engine. Or one of the vendors may have one, and possibly the CRT too. Vacuum Junction – East Coast Reatta Parts Reatta Parts Vendors - Reatta Owners Journal