Well first and foremost, I want to thank you DaVinci for your help, the tank is off and so are the petcock and gas tank cap! Along with that is the broken gas cap gasket that fell apart in my hands as I was coming back to the computer to read your post on this part being hard to find, and now with 3 plus hours of hunting online for it I can attest to its unavailability! lol So you wouldnt happen to have a place to find this small yet necessary part in that wise memory of yours per chance? Tomorrow will allow for the degreasing and cleaning of the rust from the tank and hopefully this week will bring my ordered parts for the carb which is now in pieces in a box! Love the tear down but wish the memory was better, now where does this piece go???? lol