[T2] [Q] Starter Won't Turn-now blocked gas tank

[MUTS]

Be careful of sealers- after a rebuild and placing in a tank that looked 
good on visual inspection, we went to Ohio and Michigan, and  began 
experiencing hesitation that was intermittent- I checked fuel filter and 
it was not blocked- yet symptoms seemed to be of gas starvation (would 
run at low speeds, hesitate on acceleration or uphill).  Got towed to 
Munk's which was 40 miles away (convinced Good Sam it had to be a place 
that actually works on AFC aircooled vehicles)-spent the night in their 
lot.  Next day they sold me a double relay and all seemed OK until 
hesitation again.  I laid underneath and heard a noisy fuel pump and 
replaced it with a FLAPS 150 truck one (fits like the old one.  While 
doing that, I tried running some gas from tank directly and thought it 
looked slow, blew up the hose (used my siphon hose with a connector tube 
so you could stand and blow into it) and it flowed more freely- EUREKA, 
something is blocking the outlet when it rolls over the hole!  The noisy 
pump is cavitation from the starvation. I put in a clear fuel filter. We 
limped home 350 mi. at night, blowing at least once up the hose, driving 
slowly on back roads across Pa....not a pleasant experience. I did see 
some tiny pieces of a plastic layer in the filter.
    Cut the access hole over the tank and drained it, looking through 
the level sender hole with a light hung in the tank at night. Tan 
colored pieces as large as inch across were rolling around that got past 
the baffle box around the outlet and were from a failed lining of the 
tank!  I attached a flex pipe LP gas line (around 3/4" across) to a shop 
vac hose 16 feet from the tank and sucked out all the pieces.  The pipe 
screamed like a banshee from the flex corrugations! I put a valve 
closable t in the line so I could easily blow up the line, but it's been 
OK since.


Quoth D. Raistrick:
 > I coated mine with Red Kote at the recommendation of another local bus
 > guy - it's worked out pretty well now, going on 6 years later.


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