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Last year I had trouble with dirty fuel while on a cruise to Maine. I stopped at the Great Island Boat Yard to have the old fuel pumped out and the tank cleaned. The mechanic pulled up the board in the quarter birth and, after asking how full the tank was, without hesitation opened up the sender. He used a 12v battery powered pump to pump the old stuff into a five gallon bucket which was brought up to a recycle point (several times). The hose going into the tank was a flexible one, and that was good as there is in fact at least one baffle down there. The flexible hose was able to get around the baffle though. Once the fuel was all sucked out the mechanic was able to shine a flashlight into the tank, take a good look and proclaim the insides “shiny bright and clean as a whistle”. I have had no fuel problems since.
As for the fuel flowing out when the sender cap is removed. Yup, that can happen. If your tank is full, and especially if you suspect it’s so full as to be in the filler hose, don’t pull the sender. Besides doing it as Harvey describes you can use the same method and tools that would be used with the sender cap but suck a few gallons out through the filler hose first. Then pull the sender cap. By the way, you might as well check the sender at this time. Three years ago I replaced mine, and the old one was so corroded it just about fell apart as I removed it.
Larry Robertie Cheeky Monkey Salem, MA
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harvey Rosenberg
Hi Jeff, I'll save Don Brooks an e-mail and provide his own solution to
the cleaning of the C-27 fuel tank. Also if the fuel outlet tube has a screen on the tip and you have a primary filter, the prevailing wisdom is to take it off.
Harvey Rosenberg C-27TR, #6023, 1985 M-18, Kalaurl, Stony Point, NY
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