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Engine basics => Engine set up tips => Topic started by: Gene Elliott on February 10, 2009, 12:35:17 PM

Title: Tank Set-up question
Post by: Gene Elliott on February 10, 2009, 12:35:17 PM

Gentlemen,

I was given some metal tanks and they are oval profile type. Two tubes exit the top near the front and curve and face forward and one tube exits the bottom near the front and points straight down. This configuration is new to me. How/where do I connect each tube? Thanks for your help!

Gene Elliott

Title: Re: Tank Set-up question
Post by: Bootlegger on February 10, 2009, 01:05:13 PM

Gene, What I have done in this situation is to put fuel in the tank using any line in the tank, then draw the fuel back out using a different line each time, this might get you started in the direction that you want to go.
  The other suggestion is to set the tank, bottom end down on an electric burner, empty of course, and remove the back from the tank to get a look inside...Hope that this helps... :!

Title: Re: Tank Set-up question
Post by: Glenn (Gravitywell) Reach on February 10, 2009, 01:24:14 PM

I build my own tanks so can't answer your question directly, but when I make mine I mark the variouse tubes with my sciber.  That way I don't forget and yeah....I forget more times than I remember! LOL  If you have done any soldering at all, it is a very easy matter to remove the back (as Bootlegger suggested) and see what each tube is, then replace the back.  Not much help I know, but I hope this helps.

Title: Re: Tank Set-up question
Post by: Bob Reeves on February 10, 2009, 02:01:35 PM

Bottom tube is the overflow, terminates in the front inside corner of the tank... Cap this tube after filling..

Normally the pickup tube is the one closest to the outside of the tank, this goes to the engine. The other is the vent.. This can be left open or connected to muffler pressure.

The vent tube could be either uniflow or conventional but would guess it's uniflow due to the exit location you described. Easy to find out, fill the tank 1/2 full and sit it on it's back.. If you can suck fuel out of the vent it's uniflow, if you get air it's conventional.

Title: Re: Tank Set-up question
Post by: Jim Oliver on February 10, 2009, 08:31:22 PM

Ditto what Bob posted; they sound like the Brodak Oval Profile Uniflow tank. 
http://www.brodak.com/shop_productdetail.php?ProductID=6424

Check the link........

Jim

Title: Re: Tank Set-up question
Post by: Gene Elliott on February 10, 2009, 09:30:24 PM

Thanks to all of you. Thanks for the link Jim. That is indeed an example of the tanks that I have.

I appreciate the responses,
Gene