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When all the kerosene is evaporated. You can warm the tank with a heat lamp to accelerate the evaporation process, but be very careful, the vapors are highly flammable. This will also remove any water moisture left in the tank.
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Don’t try to run it until you have the tank clean and dried out and have fresh treated fuel in it.
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Not pressure wash as in a pressure washer, but use a garden pump sprayer as best you can. You can warm the plastic wand and bend it upwards to get all around in the tank.
CTOA for some reason won't let me post a link. I guess I must be a real threat, and I'm tired of jumping through all the hoops just to post a simple picture (age maybe?). So here is a description. You can get them at any hardware store for under $20.
Hudson #60152 2 Gallon Poly Weed 'N Bug Eliminator Sprayer.
I'm slowly migrating to TBN.
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Yep, that's them all right. Now you must thoroughly clean the tank because they are all over the insides of it. Get a small bug sprayer and pressure wash /rinse down the insides with kerosene before you install the new sediment bowl assembly and let it evaporate dry. Then start dosing with the biocide for at least six tankful's, and keep a close watch on the sediment bowl screen. Most people remove the in-tank screen from the bowl assembly for that very reason. You can't check for bugs in the bowl screen. An easy way to check if there is water in your fuel is to dab some Kolor-Kut on the end of a stick and see if oit turns pink. A little goes a long way.
http://www.amazon.com/Kolor-Kut-Ounce-Water-Finding/dp/B00905UC5E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428032757&sr=8-1&keywords=kolor+kut
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If that stuff is dark brown / black and sludgy, it’s a bazillion dead bugs. You must have got a dose of moisture in your tank somehow. Let’s wait for the test. I’ve performed this test on ships and storage tanks. It’s very reliable.
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Hahaha. Nope. The drum has been empty for at least forty years. I had to chase the critters out of the transmission and PTO.
There had been a catastrophic failure at some point, as the PTO was hanging by the output shaft and all six PTO mounting studs were broken off in the transmission, and the PTO shift linkages looked like spaghetti.
At least the engine runs. Also doing a 12 volt conversion on it from a 6 volt positive ground system.
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Wow. Bummer. I've been all day figuring out cement mixer PTO (2) linkage. Both PTO's have forward, neutral, and reverse. It was a basket case. A jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing.
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Diesel bugs are microscopic and cannot be seen with the naked eye. To correctly find out if you have a problem you test the fuel. it's cheap.
Get the HUM-BUG.
http://www.biobor.com/products…..additives/
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