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W113 Pagoda SL Group => General Discussion => Topic started by: merrill on July 07, 2005, 18:04:56

Title: cleaning flower pot in gas tank
Post by: merrill on July 07, 2005, 18:04:56

After reading the topics regarding gas tank cleaning etc, anyone have a suggestion on how to clean the flower pot without removing the gas tank from the car?
I was going to drain the tank and let it dry, leaving the gas cap and fuel sender unit off. I was going to spray something in the fuel drain plug to clean out the flower pot.
just not sure what would be safest and work well.

Title: Re: cleaning flower pot in gas tank
Post by: Sphe on July 07, 2005, 20:14:00

What's your motive? I'd say draining the tank is necessary. And if you drain the tank by removing the plug in the bottom, the screen will also come out and you'll have close access to the pot itself. Check out ja17's post "fuel tank tour"

Eugene
1965 230SL, Max Speed: Zero

Title: Re: cleaning flower pot in gas tank
Post by: Naj ✝︎ on July 08, 2005, 04:06:41

I would run the tank down to 2 or 3 gallons. Then, connect the outlet from the electric fuel pump to the return line on the tank and run the pump for a few minutes. This should push all the debris into the main flower pot chamber and to the drain plug filter.
Then drain the fuel and clean the filters on the drain plug and the one in the fuel pump inlet.

naj

65 230SL
68 280SL