gomog - The nice words you say about the 1990 Morgan Plus 8 are much appreciated. This is my third Morgan since 1976 and is probably the best though my wife really enjoyed our original 4/4 as her working car for shopping, school deliveries, MCC Rally etc.
Your illustration is especially helpful though I am curious to learn the tool you have used to remove the cylindrical 'nut' that classed the job as 'not difficult'.
I don't think I want to exclude the use of a key to open the fuel caps but I am possibly misunderstanding what you are suggesting.
TBM - Thanks for the detailed information, most of which seems to be applicable to my own installation.
DaveW - Thanks also for your further information.
Today I glimpsed via mirror and mouth-held torch the interior thread of the so-called nut holding my filler cap to the body panel. Now at least I know that all that MMC forgot to do was machine the 72mm A/F hexagon profile (reported elsewhere by some members) to allow the easy removal of these nuts with a spanner. My nuts are simply plain, circular collars offering minimal grip even defeating my chain-wrench. It's so b-----y awkward working in the darkened corner of an underbody void with torch, mirror and a racalcitrant chain-wrench.
I then attempted to fit the wire-reinforced hose I had bought but eventually gave up and placed a new order for 500mm of plain old single ply fuel-proof 51mm rubber hose.
New Hose SupplierPerforming what should be a very simple task illustrates the effectof MMC's habit of changing build methods and parts specs at will. The lack of a decent Service Manual doesn't help, even on what should be just a simple job.
