Need your input on new fuel tank
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Need your input on new fuel tank
I have an in-hull fuel tank which has a special resin designed to be impermeable to alcohol and it has worked quite well. But I have noticed that there is water in the tank because my water separators show it and I have drained the tank twice showing water. I decided to open up the tank not knowing what I would see. I did this after pressure testing and finding only a hair of a leak. (No fuel ever leaked from the tank.) I am considering:
1. closing the tank with the same resin again.
2. installing an aluminum tank inside of the existing tank and starting fresh with that one.
In either case, I plan to have an additional tube input to the very bottom of the tank so that in the even that there is any condensation (since Im in Florida and there is a lot of humidity and temperature fluctuation within 24hours) I can pump the bottom of the tank out until I see fuel, this way I will know all the water is out.
Any opinions?
Thanks.
1. closing the tank with the same resin again.
2. installing an aluminum tank inside of the existing tank and starting fresh with that one.
In either case, I plan to have an additional tube input to the very bottom of the tank so that in the even that there is any condensation (since Im in Florida and there is a lot of humidity and temperature fluctuation within 24hours) I can pump the bottom of the tank out until I see fuel, this way I will know all the water is out.
Any opinions?
Thanks.
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Yep........we put a flat panel under the tank for support and so the water can drain to the bilge. Foam the tank in and then we cover the top of the tank in fiberglass.