It may not be your tanks. Much of the fuel has 10% alcohol added, which tends to clean the dirt from inside the tanks and clogs the filters for a while. Keep changing them. It also attacks the rubber hose, so be sure to change out any that is not Alcohol rated.
It also loses octane very fast and attacks moisture which causes water in the tanks. If the tanks are fiberglass, they will be ruined as it will eat through. Drain the water from the water separating filter each time you go out. Be very cautious in the spring as a full tank will absorb water from the air and a empty tank will sweat. There's two schools of thought as to which way is better to put in up. Google it, there's all kinds of write ups and some magic snake oil to fix it. Star Tron may help. Hatteras built boats with tanks as part of the hull. They need to be split and bladders or aluminum tanks need to be inserted. Thanks Rich Zimmerman ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: UnifliteWorld <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, August 8, 2010 10:52:48 AM Subject: [UnifliteWorld] Fuel Tanks..... I'm pretty new to this site and to Uniflite ownership. bought a 1970 27' Express about a month and a half ago. It's in reasonable shape, twin 318's,but I don't really think it's been used much in the past 8-10 years. Just been mostly sitting at the dock. Well, since I've bought it, I've been running it. Almost every day. Figure I'll work the bugs out of it plus make my list off projects for the off-season. Biggest issue so far: Fuel tanks. The port tank is really bad. Full of crud. Ran it about 55nm yesterday and had to replace the canister filter element three times. The starboard tank is better, not nearly as much junk. But here is one issue: When I try to run both engines off the starboard tank, the port engine will behave like it's starved for fuel, won't go above 2600RPM or so. Wasn't like that just a month ago when I bought it. Otherwise, I think these tanks are going to have to go. Anybody with any thoughts, ideas or recommendations? Thanks, MAH -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/unifliteworld?hl=en.
