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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:21:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: fuel tank cleaner [2]
To: Christopher Palmer <ctp@gbn.org>
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I think the screen you refer to is what my radiator shop guy called a
"small sock" -- he lost it when he took the pickup tube out. I had my
tank dip-cleaned, then the radiator shop soldered some pinholes and
lined the tank with the plastic slosh treatment. He took the pickup
tube out prior to sloshing and lost the screen in the process. My
tank has a slotted tab pointed up from the bottom to hold the tube in
place while you tighten the connection. I just centered the tube end
in the tab (minus the original screen, of course), then CAREFULLY put
the tank in place and SLOWLY tightened the fitting, hoping the tube
wouldn't spin around to the wrong position in the process. If you
keep the thing oriented horizontal the tube will stay put in the tab
and you can tighten it up without it spinning up out of place.
I assume the screen helps hold the tube in position in the slotted tab
so you don't have to go through the above gyrations. If the tube can
be popped loose and back in place easily you might want to pop it up
and tape it away from the bottom while you slosh. Or take the tube
out altogether if the screen goes off and on easy -- I don't know
about that since I never saw mine, but I think it has to come off to
get the tube out of the tank. Alternatively, I guess you could leave
the tube in place for the sloshing and blow air through the tube to
clear it before it hardens.....admittedly a little scary cause if it
blocks the tube and hardens you might have to take the tube out to
clear it anyway....The slosh stuff is pretty thick goop and I'd bet
you'd foul the screen with it if the tube is in place during the
slosh.....I'd even be spooked about it gluing the tube assembly to the
bottom of the tank!
MD
---Christopher Palmer <ctp@gbn.org> wrote:
>
> Also...In the Spridget fuel tank (at least in mine) there is a little
> screen cage on the bottom of the pickup tube. After seeing how
close to
> the bottom of the tank it was (as it should be) I was hesitant to
use any
> sealant for fear of clogging up that screen.
>
> Anyone have any experience sealing one of these tanks and it not
affecting
> the screen?
>
> CTP
>
> At 12:01 PM -0800 1/19/99, Larry Miller wrote:
> >What Moss sells is actually a three part process. Cleaner, etcher,
and
> >sealer. The cleaner is just a heavy duty de-greaser and would not
even
> >touch the tank I tried it on. Never tried the other two products.
> >
> >Larry Miller
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Christian Stanton <cstanton@pixley.com>
> >To: Spridgets@autox.team.net <Spridgets@autox.team.net>;
samesq@pacbell.net
> ><samesq@pacbell.net>
> >Date: 19 January, 1999 11:56 AM
> >Subject: Re: fuel tank cleaner
> >
> >
> >>By fuel tank cleaner I assume you mean a two part etchant/sealer
product.
> >>
> >>I used the fuel tank kit from JC Whitney to clean and coat the
inside of
> >the tank for my '68 Saab. I am very pleased with the results. The
etchant
> >is just dilute acid (of the type that has been discussed under the
RUST
> >thread) and the coating is a two part MEK based thick paint. Just
make sure
> >to blow out the gas pickup and vents with air _before_ this stuff
sets up.
> >>
> >>My guess is that the Moss kit is the same stuff.
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
>
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