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Old 05-11-2025 | 08:25 AM
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I’ve got water in my gas tank. I was thinking of accessing the tank through the fuel level sensor. I was going to get the nose as high as possible a drop in a tube connected to a manual transfer pump and start pumping away. Sound like a good plan?
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Old 05-11-2025 | 08:34 AM
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thats what i do make sure your pump is well away from the fumes i use an aluminum tube about 3 foot long and connect the pump hose to it all dirt and water will go to lowest corner i lift and tilt the boat to get it all to one corner
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Old 05-11-2025 | 10:56 AM
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I didn't have water in the tank but I did want to remove all of the gas that sat in there for almost 2 years while I was redoing the engines. I just used one of the hose's to the fuel pump and attached it to a small Holley electric fuel pump. Once it was done, I put in about 5 gallons of fresh REC gas and sloshed it around (used my small tractor to lift and drop the tongue) and then pumped that out.
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