If you have been following the problem with ethonol fuel in my fiberglass tank...last week I open the tank, and drained all the fuel. Today I filled the tank with water, and floated the fumes out. With half of the water still in the tank I cut the top off...1/4" fiberglass...it cut like butter. The piece I took out bends like rubber.The tank was made with gel-coat on the inside. The condition of the gel-coat looked like paint on the outside of a two hundred year old house...rolling soft flakes.
I ordered a new plastic below deck tank, which I will mount in the lazaret.
The new tank will be above the fuel pump, but it is fitted with a stop flow. If the fuel line breakes, or the pump is not sucking fuel, the stop flow will not allow fuel to flow from the tank.
All I need do now is clean the fuel pump & carb. (I think.)
The area of the old tank, will be good for tools.
I want to thank all those who gave comment on the problem of my gas leak.
My A4 is a 1968...she's just a baby...I love that engine...thank God Moyer has parts...and this forum.
My rants may sound like I'm on a quest to remove ethonol from the boating world...I am not...just want to keep my A4 running.
I ordered a new plastic below deck tank, which I will mount in the lazaret.
The new tank will be above the fuel pump, but it is fitted with a stop flow. If the fuel line breakes, or the pump is not sucking fuel, the stop flow will not allow fuel to flow from the tank.
All I need do now is clean the fuel pump & carb. (I think.)
The area of the old tank, will be good for tools.
I want to thank all those who gave comment on the problem of my gas leak.
My A4 is a 1968...she's just a baby...I love that engine...thank God Moyer has parts...and this forum.
My rants may sound like I'm on a quest to remove ethonol from the boating world...I am not...just want to keep my A4 running.
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