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Title: Best way to Clean a fuel tank out
Post by: midlandub on 01 April 2008, 15:44

anyone know of a good way to clean the fuel tank on my MK3 Golf GTI 8V. the car was stutering so after changin every thing else tht the forum sugested i decided to change the fuel filter and this resolved the issue. but now it has come back and i want to clean the tank and put a new filter on again.

Title: Re: Best way to Clean a fuel tank out
Post by: jonezee_ipswich on 01 April 2008, 18:35

are you taking the tank out to do it?
If so the best thing i find to use is brake cleaner as any left over evapourates.

Title: Re: Best way to Clean a fuel tank out
Post by: midlandub on 02 April 2008, 13:25

yeah i was gonna take the tank off the car and do a proper clean. also can the fuel pump be cleaned at all

Title: Re: Best way to Clean a fuel tank out
Post by: MowatGTI on 03 April 2008, 14:36

You could always get a new tank?

Not sure how much they are, surely not too much.

Title: Re: Best way to Clean a fuel tank out
Post by: Lewy on 05 April 2008, 21:55

Empty all of the fuel out of it, and then leave it overnight for the vapour/small amounts of fuel left in it to evaporate, and then flush it with water, preferably from a hose. Just leave the tank flushing for an hour or two, then empty the water out, leave overnight to dry and then re-fit.

Lewy