Re: Fuel Pump is out in record time: 30 mins

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 17:43:07 EDT


TerribleTom <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:

: I'm toying with emptying out the fuel tank again - as I saw there was a
: certain amount of sediment in the tank - perhaps from when I removed the
: pump unit from the tank... anyone think its worth it? I'm kinda
: getting sick of pulling the bed off to purge the tank.

    You could try setting up a siphon from the tank into a gas can
and just directing the hose over the sediment like a vacuum cleaner
to try and suck it out of the tank and down into the can. If the
sediment is ferrous, you could get it out with a magnet.

-- 
                                          -Jon-

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