What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?

On May 30, 1:30 pm, Bart wrote:
What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?

pumped on, condensation, faulty filler cap seal,

Joe

Bart wrote:
What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?

Joe wrote:
pumped on, condensation, faulty filler cap seal,


Fourth way: rainwater from deck leaks can settle on top of tank and
work it's way in

5th way: bilgewater can rise over fuel system lines and get sucked in.

I'm sure that Murphy has devised more than that! I hope I never hear
about them, frankly.

DSK

On May 30, 2:30 pm, wrote:
Bart wrote:
What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?
Joe wrote:
pumped on, condensation, faulty filler cap seal,

Fourth way: rainwater from deck leaks can settle on top of tank and
work it's way in

5th way: bilgewater can rise over fuel system lines and get sucked in.

I'm sure that Murphy has devised more than that! I hope I never hear
about them, frankly.

DSK

Also splashed in via the vents.. if the vents have no float balls
above the flame screens. Use to find quite a few copper float balls in
the gulf.

Joe

On May 30, 3:02 pm, Joe wrote:
On May 30, 1:30 pm, Bart wrote:

What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?

pumped on, condensation, faulty filler cap seal,

Joe

Everyone had good answers. I was researching this recently
and read an interesting discussion on condensation. The author
felt that condensation was extremely unlikely to occur, and
that this was a myth. I tend to agree with him.

I'd say pumped on, faulty filler cap, ingress via fill hose cap and
the vent hose. That assumes you have no hose leaks--which
would be pretty obvious.

Bart wrote:
What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?


If you consistently mow over the property line so you can make a
squatter's right claim for caretaking....sugar works, too....

"katy" wrote in message
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Bart wrote:
What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?


If you consistently mow over the property line so you can make a
squatter's right claim for caretaking....sugar works, too....

???

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On May 30, 3:02 pm, Joe wrote:
On May 30, 1:30 pm, Bart wrote:

What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?

pumped on, condensation, faulty filler cap seal,

Joe

Everyone had good answers. I was researching this recently
and read an interesting discussion on condensation. The author
felt that condensation was extremely unlikely to occur, and
that this was a myth. I tend to agree with him.

I'd say pumped on, faulty filler cap, ingress via fill hose cap and
the vent hose. That assumes you have no hose leaks--which
would be pretty obvious.

Bart,
I'm not sure what would make an onboard tank less susceptible to
condensation than our 10,000 gallon surface diesel tanks, but they get
condensation all the time and we have to pump them out regularly.
Scout

Edgar wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
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Bart wrote:

What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?


If you consistently mow over the property line so you can make a
squatter's right claim for caretaking....sugar works, too....


???


Putting water or sugar in someone's gas tank is an old country remedy
for settling property line disputes....

"katy" wrote in message
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Edgar wrote:
"katy" wrote in message
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Bart wrote:

What are the three ways water can get into your fuel tank?


If you consistently mow over the property line so you can make a
squatter's right claim for caretaking....sugar works, too....


???
Putting water or sugar in someone's gas tank is an old country remedy for
settling property line disputes....

It never settled anything, rather it provoked inter-family feuds (not the
gameshow type either). Some of those feuds became violent. I think
Michigan was rife with such disputes.

Max