Hi Neil, You don't say how old the tank is --- or the condition inside as well as on the top where they rust out with depressing regularity. Might be time for a new one --- as well as replacing all those little hoses etc. All that crap in the tank itself is going to degrade your pump and your injectors and your fuel pressure regulator and cause you trouble on the road. I recently replaced my gas tank -- I'd known it was wonky for 8 years --- in that time I replaced 3 or 4 injectors, the regulator and I just replaced an 8 year old fuel pump. I should have just bitten the bullet 8 years ago and gotten the new gas tank. If you're going to go with some sort of repair be passionate about replacing your fuel filters on a very regulat basis --- and given the price of them --- replace the tank :-) Cheers, Doug
On 2/21/08, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I'm prepping the gas tank for a top coat of some kind (bed liner maybe?) > > I can see some debris in the tank. I hesitate to flush it with water. > > Any tips on cleaning this debris out? I'll blow on the fuel outlet and > return steel lines and maybe a shopvac and/or a rag on a stick, will > get some of the debris out, but if there's a better way, I'm all > "ears"! > > > Thanks, > > Neil. > > -- > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco" > > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ >
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