Topic: How do you clean the diesel-fuel tank? Help!
Hi
The co 26 I just purchased has been sitting on hard for 4 years. The fuel (diesel) tank was about 1/8 full. I decided to siphon out the fuel to replace with fresh diesel. As I siphon the fuel through transparent tubing found out that there was some dark crap sitting at the bottom of the tank and now running down the tubing along with the fuel. What is it? Algae? What else could it develop there? (It looks more like a gelatinous soft thingy.)
Now I would like to clean the tank and if the thing gets worse may be even clean/replace the hoses.
So, now, what is the best/common way to clean all that stuff from that metal tank? Can I clean it with the tank in place? Do I have to take it out? And if I do how do I proceed? How do I clean it with?
Your help would be most appreciated. Thanks.