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[Healeys] A Mystery

Subject: [Healeys] A Mystery
From: bspidell at comcast.net (Bob Spidell)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 08:27:47 -0700
References: <20170922113919.AT7KW.5562.root@pamxwww03-z01>
What kind of 'filter' is there in the tank?? Anyone have a photo?

We dismantled an original BN2 tank, and there was nothing but a tube to 
(almost) the bottom.

Bob


On 9/22/2017 8:39 AM, Tom Felts wrote:
> the tank has to be cut open---and done by someone who understands the danger 
> in doing that.
>
>
> ---- Bob Simmen <rsimmen at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> =============
> Tom,
> How do you get to the filter inside the tank?  When I removed the sending 
> unit from my tank, all I could see were the baffles.
> I recently had to blow my lines from the fuel pump to the tank with air to 
> clear the filter.  It has worked for now, but I am sure it is just time 
> before it clogs again.
> Thanks in advance.
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Tom 
> Felts
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:21 AM
> To: Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>; healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] A Mystery
>
> Have you ever replaced the "in-tank" fuel filter?  If not this could be your 
> problem.  The same thing you described happened to me years ago.  It drove me 
> crazy until I had the tank opened.  The in-tank filter was chocked full of 
> "stuff".  I pulled it, sealed the tank, added an in-line filter and never had 
> the problem again.
>
> tom
>
>
>


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