[Shop-talk] Cleaning out fuel tank (Round II)

[Mullen, Tim]

Steve Hammatt wrote:
>
> The engine cleaning gun is an air/solvent
> blaster.  The only suction is for solvent
> pickup.  Not suitable.

I use mine for soapy water to wash the outside of the engine...

Anyway, if you poured some gasoline into the tank, then used the engine
cleaning gun to suck it back out, it would probably do a decent job of
sucking out the contaminants along with the gas.  You don't want to use
water or solvent in the tank, but gas certainly isn't going to harm
anything.  :)

It would work even better if you used the Mason jar trick in between the
pickup and the gun to keep junk form plugging up the venturi in the gun.

Tim Mullen

Chantilly, VA