The sock is just a filter and a poor one at that. Renu told me that they
take it off and leave it off when they do a tank. You are much better off
with an in-line filter which I think most people have anyway.
Larry Miller
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From: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>
To: MG List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: 19 January, 1999 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: fuel tank cleaner [2]
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>From: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: fuel tank cleaner [2]
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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.
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>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!
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>---Christopher Palmer <ctp@gbn.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Anyone have any experience sealing one of these tanks and it not
>affecting
>> the screen?
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>> CTP
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>> 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
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>> >>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.
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>> >>My guess is that the Moss kit is the same stuff.
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