Leyland Car Owners - Fuel Tank Cleaning

Ahoyhoy,
: We have changed at least 4 fuel tanks because of this over the last three or four years as cars have been coming out of storage.
: In all cases except one (My country cream super was half full with super and an inspection with a fluro light with the sender out showed a clean tank and the car ran perfectly on the old fuel, after about 10 years in the shed) the tank walls have been severely pitted with rust.
: The tanks are no doubt a throw away job in this case.
: The sender, and the filler tube and also the fuel lines suffer badly as well.
: Also, the rubber joints under the passengers side behind the front wheel have a tendency of looking fine, but cracking suddendly, and draining fuel.
: The best way to change them is no doubt a hoist, but using car stands under the body, and letting the diff swing down is better than using car ramps, as it's easier to get to those bolts up the top.
: I find that resting the tank on your knees when you remove the bolts and slowly letting it down is a good method, but make sure that you wear overalls, or decent covering clothing, as more than once I have been covered by red dust! It isnt very hard just to take the cap off and undo the four screws on the filler tube and take the tube and tank out as
: one unit. Some of the stuff that comes out of the tank is horrid, on more than one car the fuel filters have filled up with a substance like black silastic, or like sticky barbecue sauce.
: It still gets through the filter and into the float chamber though.
: The drain plug on the bottom never seems to come undone, and the only way i can think of cleaning the inside is to sand blast it.
: What fun! not looking forward to doing the tank on the green Targa in the near future, as it's oozing out a black substance from the bottom.

Leyland P76 Owners 2006

Fuel

P76 Fuel Tank Cleaning

by Adam