Mr. Longranger...

I have spent hours under my 78 troopy fitting a longranger tank (the big one that replaces a rear under-slung spare tyre. Now the tank fitting went okay in terms of a one man operation with some wood levers and blocks. I had decided that instead of a side exiting filler I would have a long hose arrangement that exits out of the rear tyre carrier - that also went okay and works well, tucked behing the spare wheel and out of sight. Then came the connections (brass 4 way tee piece) into the original tanks filling breather - Jeeez. Its a job for a triple jointed skinny dwarf!!! Has anyone else suffered with this? While the tank is welll made and everything, to describe it as a 4 hour job is pushing it. Just thought I would share that and wondered if anyone has any tips (removing exhaust would probably help)... Will have to continue Sunday afternoon (if I can finish it tomorrow afternoon then that will be approx 4 times longer than longrangers estimations). Will post some pictures of the filling pipe arrangement in case anyone else has an aversion to taking a Jig Saw to the side of their troopy.
Gil