Help Removing Hose Barb from Poly Tank?

[Blue_Runner]

Got the fuel pickup removed. G said we needed a pipe wrench....did the trick. No anti-siphon valve. What looked like two pine needles came out of the pickup tube tho. I've only got like 10 gallons in it right now. I thinking pump it out?

The pickup tube is just a flexible rubber tube crimped on the elbow at the top. At the end there is a copper piece crimped on. The copper piece has a spring in it. The top of the spring is bent over across is the middle of the passage, I'm assuming to keep big stuff out? Anybody seen this? The rubber tube shows no signs of wear from ethanol. Everything looks good. Better than I expected.

[Blue_Runner]

Here is what I am trying to describe

[buckleyjr]

Blue - just read this thread and the other on the floor removal to access the tank. What happened? Did you have a fuel issue? Clogged?

I ask because I have the same boat and I just had a fuel issue myself - though it looks like the fuel pump on my engine just went.

[Blue_Runner]

Rarely happens, but will be going along just fine, then starves for fuel. I shut down and primer bulb is flat as a pancake. To fix, I disconnect the fuel line going into the H2O sep and blow back down into the tank. I thought the hose barb might have the antisiphon valve sticking, but I found it does not have one in it. It about has to be inside the tank. By the way, my fuel pump went out about 2 years ago. Symptoms I had then included not being able to reach desired RPM.