Fittings for fuel tank with supply on end of tank

My Cal 30 seems to be missing a fuel pickup in the tank and I'm trying to figure out how to construct one. The existing plumbing has a reducing bushing in the end of the tank and a flareless fitting that screws into the center. The bushing that screws into the tank has no apparent means of attaching a pick up tube. If your tank is similarly configured: How does a short pickup tube attach when one only has access to the outside of the tank? I don't know how the existing tube became detached, but there is no way to access the fuel that is in the tank!

The first generations CAL 30 fuel tanks were under the settee (dining area) on the port side. The fuel tank was astern of the water tank. There was an inspection port or 1/2 inch threaded plug in the top of the tank with a circle cut out in the marine plywood under the cushion. The fuel draw was on the lower inboard corner of the tank and could be accessed through the hatch located under the cushion at the forward end of the port quarter birth. The vent was glassed in and ran aft on the port side to the aft bulkhead, where it turned to the vent outlet just forward of the aft vertical rail there the lifeline connects. I am calling it a draw, not a pickup because it used gravity to help push fuel through the system. At this point, the atomic 4 used a mechanical fuel pump. Many of the tanks were converted to pickups after engines were modernized with electronic fuel pumps. The original design had a valve on the port side below the instrument panel. If left open it would flood the carburetor and eventually the bridge. Brent Jacobsen CAL 30 Hull 55 Summer Wind Newport Beach CA. be… [at] pacbell.net ---In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, <sailorman@...> wrote : My Cal 30 seems to be missing a fuel pickup in the tank and I'm trying to figure out how to construct one. The existing plumbing has a reducing bushing in the end of the tank and a flareless fitting that screws into the center. The bushing that screws into the tank has no apparent means of attaching a pick up tube. If your tank is similarly configured: How does a short pickup tube attach when one only has access to the outside of the tank? I don't know how the existing tube became detached, but there is no way to access the fuel that is in the tank!