V21 Fuel Tank Removal - questions

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

I did remove the pickup and elbow - it is not anti-siphon. There is no screen on the end of the pickup. Pickup is like a piece of fuel line that lays on the bottom of the tank. Notice the pickup is on the front of the tank - it has to lay on the bottom of the tank to reach the back. When I took it out the pickup had a coiled up spring inside of it. I figured the spring was to 1) serve as a screen to block large debris and 2) keep the pickup from collapsing. I took it out but could not get it back in. The pickup seems rigid enough not to collapse and surely could not have collapsed with the spring inside....unless it was collapsing above the spring near the elbow.

Can you buy something like one of those trash pump suction hose strainers that screens out large debris? Something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-1-2-Steel-...YAAOSwll1Wz0AB Seems to me that even if one side gets blocked with whatever, the rest will still let gas flow. Kinda like the small filters they put on the ends of fuel lines lying inside the tanks in 2 cycle chain saws, weed eaters etc.

[phatdaddy]

sounds like the little spring is important.

[Blue_Runner]

I thought the same thing Phat which is why I tried and tried to get the spring back in there. However, the issue was happening well before I ever removed the spring. Also, like I said the pickup is rigid enough I do not see how it could collapse.

I'd buy a new pickup with a spring in it...........if I knew where the heck to find this type of pickup tube. Land of Misfit Pickup Tube Store?

[Blue_Runner]

Destroyer, good thoughts, appreciate the feedback. Appreciate everyone's feedback so far!

[bradford]

I'd be scared sending an electrical item into your fuel tank.

Could you just disconnect your pick up and put a new one in somehow? Seems like that would be the KISS way to do it.

Make one out of a piece of fuel line, put a nipple on the end to give it some weight, hose clamp some type of screen to the nipple. If you even want a screen.

[Blue_Runner]

Yeah Bradford, not a problem to replace the pickup tube. I can do that but don't see much reason to replace it since this one looks fine, to me anyway.

Reminds me, there is a brass nipple on the end of the pickup for weight. Forgot about that.

[phatdaddy]

was the spring in the nipple? if so, all your missing is a ball to make up a check valve.