madhat

Just an observation I made last weekend...

Me and 04CTD did some mods to my truck last weekend, one of which was a vulcan big line kit to go along with the walbro fuel pump. When I pulled my tank, there was dirt/mud that had gotten past the hose clamp and into my tank from the filler neck. After I dropped my tank, I found about a pound of garbage in the bottom. I have not been off roading to speak of, and I don't live on a dirt road. Might want to run some duct tape over the joint where the rubber meets the metal to make sure that trash stays out of the tank.

Just my .02...

Totallyrad

Dang hat, you got lucky on that one!

DR3500

are you positive it was from the filler neck? crap is also known to get in the tank from the valves that are in the depressions in the top of the tank. The valves are rollover/ emissions for a gasser. but we use the same tank as they do (at least us 3rd genners)

Geico266

Hat, I got to tell you a pound of stuff is pretty severe. Are you sure someone didn't put some stuff in the tank? That is alot of crud!

bagd99dako

that is alot of crap in the tank. i just recently did the glacier fuel pump install in my 05. when i looked inside the tank their wasnt a spec of dirt in it with 30k miles. so i guess the place i fill up at has decent fuel.

madhat

Yeah, it was a good bit. Maybe not a pound, but think about your first reaction if it was your tank. The vents at the top of the tank were pretty well clogged up, so I think I solved the DIY tank vent mod.
When I pulled the hose off the filler neck, there was dirt and crap where the hose was, and the hose goes over the filler neck about 4". This stuff did not look like trash from bad fuel, not the usual floaties from an old underground tank. Good thing for that fine screen at the bottom of the fuel assembly inside the tank, huh? Guess I'll be looking for that 2 micron filter now...

Totallyrad

Almost sounds like that truck had been in a flood.

infidel

Seems like if crud was getting in that fuel would have been getting out, you would have noticed some dripping.
Sure the neighborhood kids weren't playing filling station?

madhat

Nah, I don't think so. There are no neighborhood kids here. I bought the truck new, so I highly doubt that there was anything wrong with it then. I have never noticed fuel leaking when I fill up, and that clamp was tight. Flex maybe? There is mud and stuff all over the underside of my truck, and all over the filler neck. I feel pretty confident that was where it was getting in at. I cleaned it off real good, and made sure that the clamp was tight. I'm gonna pull it off in a couple more days and see if there is any trash under the hose.

D2 Cat

The trash might be the results of you trying to get those "boys" to ack like men and they didn't like it!!

madhat

They all know which truck is mine, too!!

mchildress

My tractors have pit-***** located on a bottom corner of the fuel tanks for draining or getting rid of water and trash. Of course they have been in the diesel business longer.

runamuk

You might have this problem also

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...d.php?t=117209

Seems to be very common!

Rick