There are a lot of little o-rings on the FCST, and I replaced all of those as well. There’s also a gasket that goes between the FCST and the fuel cell, and that got replaced, too. There are quite a lot of little odds and ends that go a full fuel cell service, but you don’t have to do the full service every year.
All ready to go back together!
And that’s mostly it. Getting the surge tank back onto the FCST plate with the little o-rings all by myself was a bit of a challenge, but I got it done.
Once I had gotten as much fuel out of the cell as I could, the old foam came out, and I put it out in the sun to evaporate as much of the gasoline as possible. Then it went into a tightly sealed trash bag and into the trash.
I had bought new foam from Radium along with the fuel pumps and other sundries, and installation is mostly the reverse of removal. It’s actually kind of hard to shove all the dry foam into the cell, but I managed to get it done.
