While slowly doing the restoration of my PV444 I've come to the part where I work on the fuel tank. (Actually I just got tired of scraping and cleaning and decided to do something else for a while.)
The tank on my 1964 544 parts car looks much better than the 1958 tank so I'm trying to use it. This afternoon I removed the tank and found that the outlet was plugged with black gunk. It took carb cleaner and lots of poking with a drill bit just to open up the brass fitting on the outlet. The outlet is well up the side of the tank so there is a pick-up line of at least several inches inside the tank which is also plugged. My inclination is to use carb cleaner and piano wire to roto-root it open and then keep at it with compressed air, more carb cleaner or whatever I can think of. I see no way to access the inside parts. My parts catalogue lists the tank and attaching parts but no picture of what's inside. None of the listed parts sound like they go inside. Are any of you familiar with what's inside? Any cautions or better ideas than what I've mentioned for opening up that fuel pick-up line?
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