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As mentioned in a recent thread ( https://www.st-owners.com/forums/showthread.php?122391-Sudden-Engine-problem! ), I started having engine problems that seemed to point to a bad fuel pump. I tried the SeaFoam route and that did nothing. Got my new fuel pump and decided to install it today... this is what I found when I removed the old one :
At first I thought it was rust but when I put it between my fingers, it looks and feels like mud... sand and silt! No wonder it started bucking when I would get on it hard. The fuel filter was just doing it's job. The entire lower tank is coated with this stuff and god only knows if there is real rust behind it! The good thing is that when I removed the fuel banjo when getting ready to take the pump out, I saw no sign of the colored gasoline that the lower tank is full of so it would seem that none of that crap made it to the TB's and into the engine... thank you filter for doing your job.
I smell a pissed off spouse or enemy of the original owner who dumped dirt in the tank.
Now I've got to figure out just what the hell to do. If the bottom tank is full of this stuff, it had to come from the upper tank so there may be some mud in it too though not as much. Anybody have a sense of how successful I'd be cleaning out the upper tank? The lower tank should be doable but I just don't know.
Maybe by this time next year I'll finally be able to ride this **** thing .
This is gonna get really expensive if I have to replace one or both of the tanks.
This sucks!
At first I thought it was rust but when I put it between my fingers, it looks and feels like mud... sand and silt! No wonder it started bucking when I would get on it hard. The fuel filter was just doing it's job. The entire lower tank is coated with this stuff and god only knows if there is real rust behind it! The good thing is that when I removed the fuel banjo when getting ready to take the pump out, I saw no sign of the colored gasoline that the lower tank is full of so it would seem that none of that crap made it to the TB's and into the engine... thank you filter for doing your job.
I smell a pissed off spouse or enemy of the original owner who dumped dirt in the tank.
Now I've got to figure out just what the hell to do. If the bottom tank is full of this stuff, it had to come from the upper tank so there may be some mud in it too though not as much. Anybody have a sense of how successful I'd be cleaning out the upper tank? The lower tank should be doable but I just don't know.
Maybe by this time next year I'll finally be able to ride this **** thing .
This is gonna get really expensive if I have to replace one or both of the tanks.
This sucks!
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