22-04-2021, 01:00 PM
My tank doesn't leak, just somehow generates quantities of rusty debris.
The pump and carb acquire fine rusty dust and need cleaning every hundred miles or so, the fuel pipe picks up enough of the bigger bits (- or maybe the gauze in the tank does, I can't remember if I made a hole in it -) to cause fuel starvation.
I had to stop every few hundred yards on the last trip. Solved temporarily by blowing back into the tank, and draining the debris out, yet again.
It might just be the remains of the float, which had disintegrated.
But I have had the tank off and swilled it out a few times - the debris still keeps coming.
The pump and carb acquire fine rusty dust and need cleaning every hundred miles or so, the fuel pipe picks up enough of the bigger bits (- or maybe the gauze in the tank does, I can't remember if I made a hole in it -) to cause fuel starvation.
I had to stop every few hundred yards on the last trip. Solved temporarily by blowing back into the tank, and draining the debris out, yet again.
It might just be the remains of the float, which had disintegrated.
But I have had the tank off and swilled it out a few times - the debris still keeps coming.