Dear Abby, Dear Abby

[Billy Austin]

Dear Abby Dear Abby, My Plymouth won't crank. I do believe there's crap in the tank....signed..... -BEWILDERED-

I started the 40 plymouth in the garage today to take the wife for a late lunch. Before the engine warmed up it sputtered and stalled. I knew for a fact I have half a tank of gas. So I had the wife crawl under and pull the fuel bowl on the pump. She came back with the brown rice grains in her hand that was in the bowl. I had her to remove the gas cap and blow air into the tank. After a minute or two I hit the starter and it fired right up. However as soon as she put the gas cap back on it sputters and stalls. Needless to say I had grill cheese at home. Then big Momma got all pissed off cause I laughed at the 2 1/2 inch ring around her mouth!

[Plymouthy Adams]

women..no sense of humor at all...I feel your pain buddy...

[Don Coatney]

Suggest you clean your tank:rolleyes:

Also follow this link.

http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/showthread.php?t=6210&highlight=cement

[randroid]

Billy,

John Prine, 1973(?). Been a fan for years.

Don't you never make fun of a woman for having a ring around her mouth or she might become determined to never get another one, 'nuff said.

You have cruddy in your gas tank because it's an old gas tank that has, over the years, gotten cruddy. Live with it then deal with it because there aren't any shortcuts. We've all been there and we've all dealt with it in our own ways, be they trying to scoop the crud out one-by-each or buying a new tank, but the crud isn't going to go away on its own.

I was "fortunate" in that I had a rust hole in my tank and the job was cut and dried so I dropped the tank and had it fixed by a local body shop welding a patch. A patch is an involved project and if you decide to go that way please do a search and\or start a new thread here. It will be worth your while.

What ever you do you'll need to drain the tank and there are four holes in the tank through which you can get gas to flow. You may as well siphon it out the filler tube because that's the easiest and safest and you won't entirely drain the tank so you should leave most of the crud behind. You can remove the hex-head (Axis-proof) drain plug but that gets gas everywhere including down your arm. My favorite method is to remove the gas gauge sensor and have a big hole to play in but it's also the most dangerous (if you let stuff like burning gasoline ruffle your feathers).

A few years ago one of the members created a contraption that looked like it was based on what you were thinking about when you should have been learning high school history. What it did was turn a gas tank every way but loose and chains (?) placed inside it knocked loose every bit of crud available. I'm sure somebody here can bring that post up again.

Welcome to the wonderful world of learning how to do something you'll probably never need to do again in your life, and garnering all that piddly information seems tedious at first to some but becomes almost addictive to us all. And gasoline won't taste any better tomorrow than it did in high school when you were ditching history class and wanted to go for a ride.

-Randy

[Don Coatney]

Randy;

We both must have been typing at the same time. It was Billy who made the gas tank cleaner that I linked in my posting above.

[Chester Brzostowski]

Try This, see link.

http://www.chetscoins.com/1948p15/20045/09182005.htm

No problems to date,

Chet...

[Jim Saraceno]

If you replaced the gas tank with a whole pig I bet you would have a fancy pig roast!