Abstract: An arrangement for attaching a tank fitting to a plastics fuel tank for motor vehicles. Through an outwardly directed pipe stub in the tank wall the fitting is inserted and fastened to the tank. Between fitting and pipe stub an elastic sleeve is clamped whose inner end by means of an inner clamping means sealingly engages against the fitting, and whose outer end by means of an outer clamping means surrounds the pipe stub. The inner clamping means is part of a stiffening member bearing against the inside of the pipe stub by means of an upper support ring. The outer end of the sleeve is folded over outwardly and pressed sealingly against the pipe stub by means of the outer clamping means and aganist the reinforcing action of the stiffening member. The arrangement enables a simple and sealed attachment of heavy tank fittings, e.g. a fuel pump.

Abstract: A device for indicating gear positions in a gear selection mechanism for a manual vehicle transmission, preferably a transmission with four or more forward speeds. In the mechanism, a gear change lever is spherically mounted relative to the vehicle, and a gear change shaft is articulatedly connected to the gear change lever so as to convert lever movements during gear changing to angular and axial movements of the gear change shaft. When changing gears to and from a neutral position, such movements are divided into a selector step and an engaging or disengaging step, or vice versa. A first means of the gear change shaft coacts under spring bias with at least one second means of a bracket mounted in the vehicle. This coaction only has one stable position which corresponds to a given neutral position for the gear change lever. During the selector step the spring bias strives to return the first means to the stable position, thus indicating the gear position of the gear-change lever.