| Brick in My Gas Tank [message #76208] |
Wed, 10 March 2010 01:34  |
George Beckman
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Colfax, CA
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Today we were surprised. We were handling the main tank for the third time in three days. (We finally found a tiny cut in the hose... less than one year old...) Of course we drained the tank. Of course we had it drip gas out of the fill tube. Of course we said, "Of course."
None of that was surprising. We decided to pour the last of the gas into a bucket... being tired of it dripping on us. We heard a sliding clunk.
"Someone left a wrench in my tank!" I was hoping for a nice crescent or perhaps a pair of vice grips.
No such luck. It was a baffle that had broken loose. It was on the filler side, about 1/3 of the way... running front to back of the tank, I suppose eliminating sideways slosh.
I now understood why we had to have a small hole patched the year before... a spot weld pulled a weak spot.
Since when were there baffles in our tanks?
And, yeah... it is still there. It has been there for a while and I guess it will be for a while longer. As Louie Depello used to say, "Drive it."
'74 Eleganza, SE, Howell + EBL
Best Wishes,
George
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