"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:gatk9i$hec$ snipped-for-privacy@registered.motzarella.org:
denatured alcohol will remove the water,too,if you have some of that around.
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Removing Gunk from Fuel Tank
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One Sunday, I'm driving to church. My truck is hesitating and lurching. it's winter, and I'm thinking water in the gasoline. I stop at Kmart. They are sold out of drygas, aparently everyone else had water in the gas that day, also. On the way out, I walked through the paint department. Sure enough, quart of denatured alcohol for 3.99 or some price. I bought it. Pour in about 12 ounces through a funnel, and it got me to church.
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One Sunday, I'm driving to church. My truck is hesitating and lurching. it's winter, and I'm thinking water in the gasoline. I stop at Kmart. They are sold out of drygas, aparently everyone else had water in the gas that day, also. On the way out, I walked through the paint department. Sure enough, quart of denatured alcohol for 3.99 or some price. I bought it. Pour in about 12 ounces through a funnel, and it got me to church.
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Lots of people use alcohol to get them to church.
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I appreciate the ideas from everyone!
It's a metal tank. It says USMC on the bottom and it looks like something you'd see strapped to the bumper of a Land Rover in a movie. I was about to try whatever solvent I have with either clean gravel or a handful of nuts and bolts when I found out that the one radiator shop that does this kind of work was open and willing to squeeze me in. Apparently this guy does a lot of this and the others just send everyone to him. He got every bit of gunk and rust out of it. He showed me a motorcycle tank in the same condition.
Still on generator power here. Most of the neighborhood is up but if I follow our line I quickly come to a pole that is down with the wires laying on a chain link fence. They are working on things that affect the most people first. With 250,00 still out as of last night I'm thinking I shouldn't hold my breath.
I probably should start a new thread for this but I'm really surprised that this old machine is standing up to this much usage. My father let it sit for 28 years, then I changed the oil and rebuilt the carb., started it once, and let it sit for 2 more years. It has a pneumatic valve that feeds oil from a large external tank when it gets low and is labeled an 'extended service' unit - 'Sears Best'. I do want to find out if modern generators burn less fuel - 3500 watts/ half a gallon per hour - and how much quieter they are these days. The neighbors probably have a contract out on me from the noise this sucker makes. And so help me, when things get back to normal I am going to figure a way to extract fuel from my old vehicle - 96 explorer, gets driven once a week and has a full tank. When the whole area goes dark is a damn bad time to start wishing you had taken a few minutes to fill all your fuel cans! If I had money to burn this would be the week I commit to a full solar array on the roof.