Re: how to clean fuel tanks
Hmm, all good thoughts...<br /><br />...What if the tank is glassed in? What if the ONLY method of removing the tank is to cut the boat apart? Cut out the molded cabin liner? Cut out the tank and get a new one for hundreds of dollars? Gas from almost every sources contains impurities, and not just "harmful deposits" like the commercials tell us. There's water, dirt, and sand in almost all gas. And what about these tanks? Tanks, full or empty sit over winters- some rusting away. Condensation forms in tanks too. These factors plus not wanting to be stranded 20 miles from shore made the risk of opening my tank acceptable- <br /><br />And what about that risk? Risk of explosion? with running cold water on my drill bit turn slowly into metal? what, a spark? heat buildup from friction??? Where is this awful risk? from gas vapors igniting from my drill? (which was taped over) I ran a fan that day. Minimising risk to acceptable levels is around us every day- That's why we have seat belts. I did it and succeded in solving a real problem without any explosion. <br /><br /><br /> As for those other "solutions" Yes, poured in distillates "should" break up the goo, but can you be sure, How many cans of goo disolver does it take? How would you know if you've succeded?<br /><br />And what about what about sediment??? I swabbed out a dozen handfuls of sand from the previous owners carelesness- Get that with a poured in solvent? No way. <br /><br />With a "port" in my tank I know I can inspect it at any time, not that I'd need to now that I use good clean gas from a reliable source. The system is now properly filtered, with an in tank screen, a RACOR canister water seperator, and one in the carb. All stock, and all profesionally installed.<br /><br />The proof is gas tank, cleaned, not exploded, not rinsed out with some voodoo potion, but cleaned.
