Cleaning out diesel fuel tank

[Halo]

Detete the pea gravel and change for 5/16 UNF nuts and thats how we cleaned rusty motorbike tanks.

Worked every time.

I only have metric equivalents - will they do ???

 

[jollyboy]

Hi Caer Urfa, ..And it will probably not do too much good to the drive either!

John B
Vagrant 1718

 

[Andrew G]

Unless you always fill from cans, a filter funnel may be too slow to pass the fuel from a normal pump.

With normal pumps (eg as at a garage) it copes well with some stop/start – not enough to put me off filtering (110 litre main tank, 120 l spare bladder plus 6 jerry cans). With a high capacity pump (eg used to filling large MBOs) it is very hard (but I have to use a funnel or extended tube and stop/start these anyway as the nozzles won’t go in my filler).
The question is how keen are you to keep water and contaminants out of your tank and whether you trust your source(s) of fuel? Unless there is a leak in your system water comes from either the source (hence filter it) or condensation (hence keep tank full). I’d rather keep stuff out than rely on filtering it out once its in. Cheers, Andrew

 

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I only have metric equivalents - will they do ???

Not if the tank is an old one. The nuts won't fit in the corners