- 1. Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: BobTescione <mogman@rpa.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:09:29 -0400
- Some guidance, please. Just got my car back on the road after a complete front end rebuild(51 +4). However it doesn't want to travel very far before the fuel line seems to get plugged with dirt. Blo
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00084.html (7,749 bytes)
- 2. RE: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "carfindr" <carfindr@tiac.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:00:59 -0400
- I had a similar problem on my 58 +4. Yes you will have to pull the tank. After you have drained it and dried it thoroughly (I used a hair dryer, and just let it run on low for hours) Vacuum out all
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00085.html (9,272 bytes)
- 3. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Cobb " <cobmeister@zianet.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:08:14 -0600
- Hey Bob, This is another area where reasonable people often find reasonable grounds to disagree... Personally, I do not believe in using any of the tank coatings that are available to "seal" the insi
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00086.html (9,950 bytes)
- 4. RE: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "L.J. & M.L. Shields" <mshields@pclink.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 17:33:16 -0500
- In reply to the problem of a plugged gas line, be sure it is dirt and not a gas problem. I had the same problem with my 67 +4 (TR4 engine). After driving approximately 20 minutes the engine bogged do
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00087.html (9,495 bytes)
- 5. RE: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "carfindr" <carfindr@tiac.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 19:02:32 -0400
- Hi Colin, Whilst it's true, using a coating on the inside of the tank is no substitution for replacing the tank. I can personally vouch that after having a sealer in the tank of my Jaguar for more th
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00088.html (11,976 bytes)
- 6. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Oddcarnut@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 19:09:22 EDT
- << In reply to the problem of a plugged gas line, be sure it is dirt >> On my 63 +4 I developed a periodic gas line plugging problem. After pulling the tank assuming it was dirt or rust, I found the
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00089.html (8,931 bytes)
- 7. RE: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "carfindr" <carfindr@tiac.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 19:17:45 -0400
- "oxygenated gas" - What on earth are you, and or your mechanic talking about? I'm sorry to pick a fight but this sounds like a load of 'codswallop'(aka BS). Perhaps you just had water (and/or some ot
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00090.html (11,152 bytes)
- 8. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: MOGLOOM@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 19:53:28 EDT
- Jeff, Some of us in the smog prone areas (read California) have to use oxigenated gas during certain times of the year. It's a buerocratic thing out here but might have some real purpose in other sta
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00091.html (8,324 bytes)
- 9. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Cobb " <cobmeister@zianet.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 18:10:27 -0600
- Hey Jeff, Ah, yes, indeed, I have spent many hours trying to straighten theses messes out. Perversely, the better the sealer starts out, the bigger the mess it leaves when it ultimately fails. And, o
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00092.html (9,250 bytes)
- 10. re:Dirt in the Petrol tank (score: 1)
- Author: linda noland <acmelinda@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 20:46:11 -0500
- Brethren & Sistren, If you do seal the inside of your gas tank, please be sure thereafter never to use any kind of additive-octane booster, lead substitute, etc. -in the tank, as this will turn the l
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00093.html (9,206 bytes)
- 11. RE: Dirt in the Petrol tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Montilla, Arthur Neil (Neil)" <anm1@lucent.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 01:11:08 -0600
- 15 years ago I went through the contaminated (rust) gas tank problem. Tried 1. Chain in the tank 2. Pressure cleaner 3. Multiple draining out, flushing, drying, etc 4. Big diesel filters 5. Coating t
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00094.html (9,970 bytes)
- 12. RE: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Vandergraaf, Chuck" <vandergraaft@aecl.ca>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:24:47 -0400
- "Pulling the [gas]tank." I recall reading that this is not a simple process on account that the tank rests on transverse pieces of wood. Is there a simpler way to remove the tank than to cut the woo
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00096.html (10,937 bytes)
- 13. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: BobTescione <mogman@rpa.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:32:17 -0400
- Chuck, Ive had it out before. Its not too bad a job and requires unbolting of of the wooden framework (on which the tank rests) from the two wheel arches. By the way I have considered a Stainless rep
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00097.html (12,233 bytes)
- 14. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Ernest(Chip) Brown" <Chip.Brown@msdw.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:39:20 -0400
- Bob, my own experience with rust was that I removed the tank, etched it with a weak acid solution (I remember muriatic, but I could be wrong) and the problem was fixed, but only temporarily. I have a
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00108.html (9,168 bytes)
- 15. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: TrmpetDave@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 02:51:19 EDT
- << Brethren: Some guidance, please. Just got my car back on the road after a complete front end rebuild(51 +4). However it doesn't want to travel very far before the fuel line seems to get plugged wi
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00116.html (9,471 bytes)
- 16. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Howie <hclark@mail.dcwi.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:58:31 -0500
- My '47 Ford had a badly gunked up fuel tank. I replaced it with a stainless steel tank from an outfit in Minnesota that advertises in street rod mags. It fit perfectly, looks like the original but h
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00125.html (14,684 bytes)
- 17. Re: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: MOGLOOM@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:27:21 EDT
- << the light weight is more in keeping with the Morgan Way. >> Maybe even made out of wood; that would be really keeping in the Morgan way! ;-)
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00126.html (8,386 bytes)
- 18. RE: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "Vandergraaf, Chuck" <vandergraaft@aecl.ca>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:19:07 -0400
- Not necessarily! The specific gravity of aluminum (aluminium to those across the pond) is only 2.7. Assuming that wood has a specific gravity of 0.9, the walls of a hypothetical wood gas tank could o
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00127.html (9,092 bytes)
- 19. Fw: Dirt in the Petrol Tank (score: 1)
- Author: "George Dow" <gdow@pylon8.freeserve.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:04:28 +0100
- Hi Guys Chuck, what if you lead lined the wood tank.........Just thinking of ancient Mog compatible crafts!.......I must get a life?? Cheers, George Glasgow Scotland of as thick
- /html/morgans/2000-06/msg00128.html (9,580 bytes)
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