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Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2001 7:23 pm
by Wiedemeyer
Hi Y'all, Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning out a plugged gas line on a TC? This car was okay about a 2 years ago, but hasn't been driven since then. The fuel line is now blocked, probably with sludge. I'm looking for something to pour into the line from the fuel pump end that will dissolve the crud without reacting with anything else when it's ultimately pumped back through the fuel pump and into the carbs with the gas. I prefer not to take everything apart to clean it. Thanks, Bob
Re: Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2001 9:39 pm
by JTPAKI@aol.com
Bob,
How about just a little air pressure from the air compressor? Use a rubber
tipped blow gun and very little air pressure. Have you pulled the screen out
of the bottom of the tank. Probably where its plugged anyway. Might as well
pull it out.
Joe Potter
Eugene, Oregon USA
www.hometown.aol.com/capaciousmg/vasale/vamain.html
http://hometown.aol.com/jtpaki/index.html
In a message dated 6/6/2001 7:24:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
boxweed@thebest.net writes:
Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning out a plugged gas line on a
TC? This car was okay about a 2 years ago, but hasn't been driven since
then. The fuel line is now blocked, probably with sludge. I'm looking for
something to pour into the line from the fuel pump end that will dissolve
the crud without reacting with anything else when it's ultimately pumped
back through the fuel pump and into the carbs with the gas. I prefer not
to take everything apart to clean it.
Thanks,
Bob
Re: Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2001 10:11 pm
by Frank O_ The Mountain
In a message dated 6/6/01 7:24:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
boxweed@thebest.net writes:
>
Well, you might have too because the most likely thing to be plugged is your
gauze filter inside the gas tank...
Terry
Re: Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2001 1:01 am
by John T. Seim
Two years is too short a time for a fuel line to be blocked with sludge.
I am sorry to say that you probably will have to disassemble the line
from the tank. Check the filter screen, soldered to the tank fitting. If
there is no filter screen there, you should install one. Think of the
fuel line like a drain pipe. The filter screen keeps debris from falling
into the pipe. No screen, no stopping debris from collecting in the
pipe. At some time, enough will collect in the bend to obstruct the
flow.
If the screen is intact, and you suspect sludge collected in the fuel
line, it will collect near the tank end, from the low point of the line
up to the tank. I would recommend that you cut open the fuel line to
install an in-line fuel filter (5/16"). Locate a low visibility stop
back near the tank. With the fuel line severed, you can push a wire
through the remaining length of pipe, as long as the pipe is
disconnnected from the tank. I have sucessfully used insulated 14 ga.
multistrand wire to clear the fuel line after 23 years, as long as there
was fuel to keep the sludge from drying out. If it has dried out, you
could straighten the line, and use a gun drill to remove the sludge,
which will be like plastic or rubber, once dried.
John Seim
Irvine, CA
Re: Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2001 1:49 am
by C Sherriff
If you use an air line two points:--
1. Blow from the engine towards the tank.
2 Disconnect at the tank end to prevent the tank exploding / distorting
if the pressure does get through!!!
Clive
Re: Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2001 11:29 am
by Wiedemeyer
Thanks to everyone for the advice! I'm now convinced that the best course of action would be to take everything apart at the bottom of the tank and see what the problem actually is, so that I can fix it right. Bob
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Bob,
How about just a little air pressure from the air compressor? Use a rubber
tipped blow gun and very little air pressure. Have you pulled the screen out
of the bottom of the tank. Probably where its plugged anyway. Might as well
pull it out.
Joe Potter
Eugene, Oregon USA
www.hometown.aol.com/capaciousmg/vasale/vamain.html
http://hometown.aol.com/jtpaki/index.html
In a message dated 6/6/2001 7:24:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
boxweed@thebest.net writes:
Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning out a plugged gas line on a
TC? This car was okay about a 2 years ago, but hasn't been driven since
then. The fuel line is now blocked, probably with sludge. I'm looking for
something to pour into the line from the fuel pump end that will dissolve
the crud without reacting with anything else when it's ultimately pumped
back through the fuel pump and into the carbs with the gas. I prefer not
to take everything apart to clean it.
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Thanks,
Bob
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Re: Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2001 2:50 pm
by Mark Andrew
Use a vacuum pump such as one to bleed brakes and suck from the pump end of the line. If the fuel is bad siphon with the same pump and some tubing first to drain the tank.
Mark
TC 5146
Wiedemeyer wrote:
Hi Y'all, Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning out a plugged gas line on a TC? This car was okay about a 2 years ago, but hasn't been driven since then. The fuel line is now blocked, probably with sludge. I'm looking for something to pour into the line from the fuel pump end that will dissolve the crud without reacting with anything else when it's ultimately pumped back through the fuel pump and into the carbs with the gas. I prefer not to take everything apart to clean it. Thanks, Bob
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Re: Cleaning Out A Gas Line
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2001 1:07 am
by C Sherriff
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>Use a vacuum pump such as one to bleed brakes and suck from the pump end
of the line. If the fuel is bad siphon with the same pump and some
tubing first to drain the tank.