My wife put me back on the 780 project last week, telling me that she would like to be driving it "soon". There is still a lot of work to do and I never did put the fuel tank back in, not wanting the space that I had allocated for half of a dual exhaust taken up with a plastic gas tank. I went over to the local Pull a Part and removed a small tank from an 88 740 thinking that it would be easier to remove at the appropriate time without having to take the driveshaft back out.

( This is the tank we are going to use for the project: http://www.tanksinc.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=129/category_id=69/home_id=59/mode=prod/prd129.htm)

After "welding" the cuts made by the scrap yard, I tried to install the tank and found that it was about 3" too long for the 780. My wife suggested using the hot gun to make the tank pliable and push it in where it was in contact with the car. Hey, it worked like a charm! I put a couple of gallons of gas in the patched tank and the car fired on the second attempt, settled down and ran smooth, even without the exhaust and O2 sensor behind the header pipe. The v-6 did not seem as tired as I thought it would and ran with no smoke or fuel smell after a few months of sitting idle. Today I am going to put in another Cat and hook the drive shaft back up so it can be moved around the other 4 in the driveway.

BTW, the front shocks off of a 1997 GMC Yukon are in the rear and made a good fit with just a little modification.
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Will Dallas, www.willdallas.us, www.willdallas.org, www.willdallas.com, www.dallasprecision.com 86 245 DL 222K miles, 93 940 260K miles, 88 765 GLE 152K miles, 88 780 246K miles, 93 Buick LaSabre 119,000 miles