Date:         Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:02:21 -0500
Reply-To:     Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Gas tank out. How to remove debris from tank? (searched)
Comments: To: neil N <musomuso@gmail.com>
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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
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>



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