Drop by the marine diesel shops and ask them if you know where you
might borrow a "fuel polisher", which is nothing more than a bunch of
filters and a pump. Mine is made from a surplus fuel pump out of a
gas station pump someone was throwing away, three paper towel fuel
filters off the internet and a drainable Racor fuel filter so I can
drain off the water it collects.

You stick the intake into the crap in the bottom of the tank with fuel
in it and hook the outlet of the polisher to the fuel outlet of the
tank so it keeps agitating the crap on the bottom up so it will get
sucked up in the intake of the polisher.

Just start it running and come back to change the paper towels every
few hours. You can hear the pump laboring when they get clogged.

If you only need it once, someone has one you can borrow, probably at
the diesel shop. It's kinda fun to own and makes you a hero when you
loan it out to someone else....(c;

Don't forget to put new filters on it before you give it back to
them.....


On 25 Jan 2004 07:45:45 -0800, (Vince
LoRusso) wrote:

I bought a Whitby 42 last June and she has water, fuel and dirt in the
center fuel tank. This tank is located in the keel with an access
plate almost under the motor. I sucked out everything that I could
but the tank is fare from usable.

Anyone have any suggestions how to clean up and seal off this tank so
I can use it?

Thanks,

Vince LoRusso of S/V Horizons

Larry W4CSC

Is it just me or did the US and UK just capture 1/3
of the world's sweetest oil supply? What idiot wants to
GIVE IT BACK?!!