Fuel tank removal

Wow! I actually experienced that phenomenom when I bought my car,!
The seller had left an egg cuo full in and said drive up the dual carriageway about 5 miles, you will see a garage on the otherside, go to the roundabout and back down to it.
The gauge was on less than zero and I drove like a vicar. After going around the roundabout the gauge movef upwards. I couldn't relax as I thought it was faulty but I made the garage.
These cars do have character...

I am still utterly banjaxed by the thought of any car maker employing that design.
Use it a reserve tank.
And releases around a UK roundabout not a Frence carrefour.......

Well cleaned the tank out, amongst the delightful detritus found in there was some globs black sort of soft rubbery muck, a shit load of rust, flakes of old paint from who knows where, water and various UFOs unidentified foul objects!
the pump is totally buggered and I might yet have to replace the gauge sender/pump mounting unit.
With the interior out of the car there is evidence of a high tide mark, so either the car got flooded some time in the past (which is cause to be a statutory write off if ever an insurance claim was submitted) or it got caught out in a pisser of a rain storm with the roof down., the floor isn't rusty but I can see it has had a gut full of water @ 50mm deep at some time in the dark distant past.
One of the rubber floor bung plugs/grommets under the fuel tank is missing So I assume that was removed to bail the bilges.

Good luck getting it back in. Let's hope that process is easier.

Just get it near & give it a kick, it’ll go in, it’d probably go in if Cobber shouted at it.
M

Still got to figure out what to do with a jerrycan of dirty and stale fuel, having problems getting straight answers from the local council, in the bad old days people would just use it to poison some weeds, but in these enlightened times that won't be acceptable, so much as a sniff and there will be complaints flooding in, from all quarters.
There will be a procedure but what it is seems to be a mystery to those who are supposed to be in the know.
I doubt it would even burn very well now, not that I was planning a conflagration. I stinks worse than a polecats, arse, that lovely smell of fuel that's lost it's will to burn!
@ 3months is all modern fuel is good for, not like the good old days when real blokes had lead in both their pencils and fuel!
Ah well it's happy sitting safely in a nice new jerry can for now, until I can extract some answers from those who's job it is to know!

 

I had half a tank of unusable diesel (don't ask how).
Living on the outskirts of London, finding a farm was not very easy but the farmer was happy that I emptied it over his (unlit) bonfire. 

Remind me when bonfire night is!

Guys I don't mean to be rude but.......Yeah this is the southern hemisphere, were coming into bushfire season, nobody is going to be having bonfires till late Autumn

But it is late autumn!
M

Awaiting, with interest, how you get it back in! Creating a partial vacuum in it, if that’s feasible, for a couple of days, might accelerate that shrinkage everyone claims happens.

if ever I go for petrol and see the tanker there, I go somewhere else or delay it by a day, because the process of filling the tanks stirs up all the shit in it.   But how many times have I filled up where the tanker left only 5 minutes earlier?

Makes you wonder how long before that petrol station’s tanks start leaking fuel into the ground.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-13866003/The-leafy-village-devastated-Asda-petrol-station-leak-Britain-mercy-incompetent-corporates.html

An interesting collection of debris cleaned from the tank.
How did it get there? Who knows!
It is known that if certain fuel additives are not added in the correct way then precipitation can occur. By that I mean you have to add “X” to the fuel storage tank first before adding the basic petrol (in the refinery blending tanks), similarly you must add “Y” to the basic fuel in the storage tank for the same reasons.
Heaven knows what happens to fuel from different suppliers (at the pumps) if it is mixed with that from another refinery, or for that matter what happens if aftermarket additives are added.
There are many “rubber” hoses involved in conveying fuel from refinery into your car. So it is not too surprising to think that some “rubbery gloop” came out but a bit alarming never the less. What happens at garage forecourt and storage tank maintenance is another obvious place for foreign matter to enter the system.
It just shows the need for a filter in the car before it blocks the injectors!