Anyone found a decent plastic gas tank?

[jbrewer]

Happy Thanksgiving!

I had the ugly O out doing leaf duty (again) yesterday and noticed that it began to lean out (again) due to clogged up fuel system (again). 95% of the time it's rust fragments that clog the fuel outlet.

So... has anyone had any luck getting a plastic fuel tank that turns out to be reasonable size for a cub? Anything from 1/2 to a full gallon would be fine. I could adapt some sort of mount I'm sure.

I'm really tired of fuel starvation problems in most of my old cubs due to deteriorating gas tanks. I understand that stuff rusts after ohhhh 50 yrs or so! :-)

[R Bedell]

If this is a Want Ad, in needs to go in the proper section.

[jbrewer]

Originally Posted by R Bedell

If this is a Want Ad, .

Not a want ad, just looking for a source of such things. There's some cool spun aluminum jobs used for "cool cans" or "puke bottles" for drag cars, but those cost more than most of the Cubs I own.

There's some small plastic tanks on Amazon, but so far I've held my nose and passed them by.

[ol'George]

May I suggest cleaning the tank with a handfull of 1/4' nuts and shake it till you tire and do it again & again, finally flushing it out and installing a inexpensive
inline filter.
it has always worked for me and others, I do not line the tanks, but after they are clean I fill with fuel through a screened funnel as I do all my tractors, small to large farm tractors, gas & Diesel

[ironman]

The products from these folks that I've tried are great, although I have never used this one. But might be worth consideration....
https://www.kbs-coatings.com/cycle-tank-sealer-kit.html

[john hall]

I just clean them and put them back on. If there are no baffles then I put in small gravels--clean, no dirt. Could also use nuts and washers. Shake it around or strap it onto the rear wheel of something else and let it spin for a while (I'm sure there are videos on the net). If you are trying to get out old fuel residue, I suggest something like purple power or simple green mixed real strong, or even dumping in a gallon can of carb cleaner.

[rsshallop]

Hello, Here is a picture of the gas tank on my Sears year 2000 snowblower (10 hp tecumseh single cylinder) . It is plastic rectangle type which measures 11"L x 6"W x 5"D with no weird indentations. My neighbour was scraping her machine which was very similar to mine, so I pulled some parts off it before it ended up in the dump and one of those parts was the exact same tank as on my machine. At the time I thought it could be redeployed for something, somewhere, somehow. Anyway, if this is kind of what you are looking for, it should be easily found on ebay.

[nra1ifer]

Originally Posted by rsshallop

Hello, Here is a picture of the gas tank on my Sears year 2000 snowblower (10 hp tecumseh single cylinder) . It is plastic rectangle type which measures 11"L x 6"W x 5"D with no weird indentations. My neighbour was scraping her machine which was very similar to mine, so I pulled some parts off it before it ended up in the dump and one of those parts was the exact same tank as on my machine. At the time I thought it could be redeployed for something, somewhere, somehow. Anyway, if this is kind of what you are looking for, it should be easily found on ebay.

I had my eye on one of those Tec tanks before I found a local source of a new-to-me decent tank for my 123.

[jbrewer]

Thanks guys. I'm going to try one of those Tecumseh varieties. There's several always on Ebay.

Hard to get a metal tank to last 60 yrs these days :-)