missed ya at the Christmas party man

I was on the way but my car started running really bad so I turned around and limped it home. Took the carb apart cause I thought I might have a small piece of trash in the carb. I was right.


It filled the bottom of a sandwich bag about a pinky thick all the way across if this red powder. It's fine fine like baby powder.

I have no idea what it could be. I must have gotten a bad tank of gas. The filter turned dark after I filled last time and I changed the filter thinking nothing of it. Pretty weird stuff.

wow - that's alot of crap

Rust?

Never had a rust in my tank problem before. It's a real fine powder. Probly came with a tank of gas I bought. Might be an additive or dye of some sort. I have no idea. I saved it in a bag.

I got some gas like that at racetrack it cloged up two filters before it cleared up

Found out what that powder is its rust in the tank. No the tank does not look bad on the inside but I believe it's called flash rust. I'm probly going to have to coat the tank in a por 15 type product.

just keep it full.

Billy, I had the flash rust myself after a few full tanks full of fuel sloshing around a bit and a few filters, I don't have the problem. My flash rust was caused when I used a muriatic solution with a chain to clean it out then used water to rinse. So what I did next was to slosh gasoline in it and moved on.

An easy way to fix it is to do the muriatic acid/chain trick, rinse it out with hot water. Let it dry and flash rust, then slosh some phosphoric acid, that will turn the flash rust to a zinc like coating...problem solved. I need to do that to the bus when I have the tank out to do the motor swap, holy crap it has been clogging filters like crazy.