[V8] fuel tank... *sigh* does it ever end?

[Ed Kellock]

An rant in re: fuel tanks, etc. ...

My girlfriend's '92 Firebird decided to not start on Friday.  I checked the
usual stuff and came up with fuel pump but didn't know how to be sure if it
just wasn't being triggered for some other reason, blah blah.  Bought and
RTFM, the Chilton edition, and when I got to "remove gas tank", I quit
reading.

I have spare cars but she doesn't so it went in to the local garage which is
good but not a whole lot less than a dealer.  $650 estimate.

Crap weather and the lack of a spare running automatic car.  Dammit.

The timing belt job on an Audi V8 may seem a needlessly complex and
sometimes hopeless challenge, but at least they could figure out how to cut
a fugging hole in the floor over the GD gas tank.   (MAC)

Ed