Soap suds are a good thing. You might want to use a little more pressure than your mouth. There are an amazing number of openings in a vanagon fuel tank. You need a very large rubber stopper for the filler pipe opening. I seem to recall it went flying across the shop at one point. :-) Larry A. don't let your fuel pump flatten your tank
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 5:35 PM Alex MeVay <alex@mevay.org> wrote: > > I have had new tanks with fuel flow issues > > Yikes. I have new a fuel tank (JP Group from GoWesty, IIRC) waiting > to go in in the next month or three when I do my cooling tubes. > > Is there any way to check or clean the tank before it goes in to avoid > these issues? > > Thanks also Dennis and Ken for the tips on the fuel sender. I assume > soapy water and mouth air pressure with the other holes plugged is > good for finding leaks? > > Thanks as always, > > Alex > |
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