Re: [DMCForum] Re: Tuna Fish Tank Baffle

[DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have a picture of your set-up, i am interested in seeing it?

Mark V



On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 10:22  PM, content22207 wrote:

> My tank is identical to yours. A large size tuna fish can just barely
> fits through the opening. Is about 95% height and diameter of John
> Hervey's baffle (you have to squeeze his to get it in. Not hard to do
> because it's only made of aluminum flashing). One advantage of the can
> -- has a solid bottom. Does a much better job of holding sloshing fuel
> (that's why people still suck air with his -- the thing flops up &
> down, holding no fuel at all). Drill some 1/8" holes near the bottom
> so you don't exclude fuel when the tank level drops below the lip.
> Mine are 1/4" from the tank bottom.
>
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
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>> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
>>> If your original baffle is in good condition then I suggest
>>> you keep using it.  I would expect any stale system to need
>>> a new suction hose, suction filter, fuel pump boot & cover.
>>> If you are on a budget then follow Bill Robertson's example
>>> with the tuna can.  I'm hardly above doing that myself.
>>
>>
>> The baffle is ok, but I might have messed up the screen when I was
> cleaning
>> the tank.  The suction hose was very soft and squishy, but
> everything else
>> was fine.  The fuel pump boot is ok, but the cover is ripped.  I would
>> rather wait and buy the good stuff, but I think the tuna can will
> not find
>> its way into my car :)
>>
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>>>> The pump had a plastic Bosch sticker on it that fell off in my hand,
>>>
>>> The new ones come that way for applications where it is
>>> mounted outside the tank with a strap.  I have heard about
>>> people having those clog the fuel suction screen.  You are
>>> lucky you caught it.  So are all the parts to your baffle
>>> system there?
>>>
>>> Walt
>>
>>
>> Can you define 'strap' without using the word 'on'?  ;)  Seriously,
> I don't
>> know of any strap that was on mine and the pump looked brand new.  I
> could
>> tell someone had been in there before, but it didn't seem recent.  I
> think
>> all of the baffle parts are there.  I will have to look again as it
> has been
>> many months since I had my hands in the tank.
>>
>> Greg
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