Fuel tank cleaning?
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Fuel tank cleaning?
Hello everyone, I am in the process of installing a 50gal fuel tank in a 76 F-250 4X4. This tank is long rectangle type that would fit under a truck toolbox. Problem is I have no idea how to clean the inside of it? Is there some type of crazy chemical out there that I can dump in and get the crud out?
Also I think I want to use this big tank to fill the smaller 19gal that is located behind the seat. Will I need to get some type of electric pump in order to get the fuel from the big tank to the small or will it simply flow from one to the another with vacuum?
Thank you,
Brad
Also I think I want to use this big tank to fill the smaller 19gal that is located behind the seat. Will I need to get some type of electric pump in order to get the fuel from the big tank to the small or will it simply flow from one to the another with vacuum?
Thank you,
Brad
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take the tank to a shop to have it cleaned out and redone inside. they do it for pretty cheap, they pop the tank apart and refinish it inside, for a little more money you could just buy a wrecker tank that is mint inside for roughly 75 bucks. and that tank behind the seat idead will work of you lengthen the pump inside the tank, do this buy pulling the little cylinder shaped pump off the sending unit inside the tank and string it down to whatever end of the tank you need it at and go to hardware store and buy a new length of the same diameter hose that is on the pump and atatch that to the pump and the sending unit, while your at the hardware store buy the same gauge of wiring thats on the pump , you'll need to lengthen those as well. only part that wont work is your gauge, because the meter in the sending unit will be in its original position which you cant re located, like when you drive up a steep hill and you gauge reads wierd.its a relativly easy job once you get into it.
good luck
good luck
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