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Shortly after I had a new fuel tank installed, I discovered a problem — a boat gas tank vent problem. It was difficult to put gas in the tank. The nozzle continually shut down, as if the tank were ...
Aluminum fuel tanks can corrode in a marine environment, though much depends on how well they are protected belowdecks from salt water. Shielded from briny water, tanks can last forever, but on some ...
Ethanol-blended fuel destroyed the boat’s fiberglass fuel tank, and mechanics had to cut through the hull and remove the ruined tank piece by piece.
The #9040PN Marine Fuel Tank Sweeper from Innovative Products of America (IPA) removes water, impurities and sludge from fuel tanks and bilges.
A fisherman in Australia made a costly blunder when he went to fill up the gas tank of his boat at a 7-Eleven in West Pennant Hills, New South Wales. He mistook a rod holder for the gas tank, and ...
Mathis Winkler NEWPORT BEACH -- City officials have urged their congressmen to introduce legislation requiring boat manufacturers to use standardized tank inlets to reduce fuel spills in the harbor.
And because boat fuel tanks must be vented, the humid Louisiana atmosphere has an always-open avenue to the water-absorbing ethanol. Is this always a problem for boaters?
In addition to weakened gasoline tanks, boat owners also have reported significant engine damage as components in the fiberglass dissolve and pass through their boat's fuel system.
The space shuttle fuel tank ET-94 sits atop a barge in Marina del Rey, California, on May 18, 2016. The space shuttle external fuel tank known as ET-94 is moved from its barge to dry land at ...
A group of farmers have come up with an ingenious way of recycling the thousands of external fuel tanks jettisoned by U.S planes during the Vietnam War - by turning them into river boats and ...