Re: Gas tank sealer?

Posted by Bill Smith on October 22, 2001 at 11:27:26 from (128.242.4.59):

In Reply to: Gas tank sealer? posted by Paul Shuler on October 22, 2001 at 10:39:33:

I am unfamiliar with the cleaner and sealant products so can't give you any info there. I believe your sediment bowl assembly should unscrew from bottom of tank. If I remember right there should be a line that sticks up like 1/2 inch to 1 inch above the bottom of tank so that the gas don't drain into sediment bowl right off the bottm of tank. When there is sloshing around of the gas when you drive around the dirt will work its way up alowing it to raise up enough to enter into that raised pipe. There must be alot of dirt and maybe rust in there. I would drain gas and remove sediment bowl assembly and remove tank. I would use a liquid such as cleaning solvent or maybe that cleaning solution you were talking about or just plain gas and put that in tank and shake it all around and try to work all that junk loose and get the tank rinsed and cleaned out. You might have to plug the whole where your sediment bowl assembly goes in while you are shaking the liquid around in there. A pressure washer would work great but I don't know if I would recommend using water and it might be expensive using something else. Then when you get it all cleaned out put the tractor back together. You might want to clean out sediment bowl assembly, gas line, and carb. Then make sure you put in clean fuel free of water. I don't know what your fuel source is wheather it is a gas can or fuel barrel or your local Texaco pump but you might want to double ckeck that it is clean so you don't put dirt right back in again. I used a metal gas can for awhile before I realized it was rusty on the inside and was clogging up my inline fuel filter on one of my tractors. After about 2 fuel filters I throwed that can away and still had trouble for about 2 more fuel filters before everything was back to normal. All becuase of that stupid gas can.

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