Fuel tank removal
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I pay a bloke to mow the lawns, I got better things to do than chase a bloody lawn mower around the yard let alone maintain the horrid things.....I despise small engines they are backward and poorly designed rubbish built to the lowest possible costCobber, what I have done with old fuel is mix it with some fresh and used it in our lawn mower, it smells really bad and the mower doesn't like it much but it's being used.
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2003 TF 135 sunstorm
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Is that as a consequence of lead in the petrol or the introduction of ethanol, or the gasoline itself (or other additives).
Edit I suspect primarily the Gasoline and probably “all of the above”.
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I doubt there’s much lead in it now, unless the delivery driver dropped his pencil in the tank.
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The phenomemon of them expanding once fuel was put in them was known about over 20 years before MG-Rover started using them. and there have been no other ill effects from this expansion other than making the tank difficult to remover from a confined space. Something that some idiot at MG-Rover overlooked when designing the tank!
Plastic tanks are fine so long as they're properly designed and constructed, indeed they offer some advantages such as light weight, rust free, good impact resistance, cost etc.
There are some disadvantages too, but these should be accounted for in both the design and manufacturing processes, obviously the expansion can be a problem as can the problem of some owners complaints of fuel smell in the car, this I believe is due to a lack of a critical additive SoarnoL in the molding of the tank.
This additive help the HDPE plastic achieve an impenetrable barrier to fuel fumes, if not enough is used or it is left out then fuel fumes can bleed through the HDPE plastic.
I suspect the manufacturing process was on the odd occasion a bit slack in this regard.
During the manufacturing process samples should be taken and tested in the lab before releasing every batch for delivery, this sometimes doesn't get done by unscrupulous suppliers out to cut corners and save a buck or lazy and stupid staff.
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