Diesel tank clean-out port
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I would contact Catalina if it were me. How are you going to cut it and avoid metal particle contamination?
Been a week since I e-mailed Catalina and no reply yet.
With hole saw in the cut, I plan to vacuum up chips during the cut. Then vacuum out whatever falls inside the tank, along with existing sludge. The SeaBuilt web site provides instructions. BTW, the tank already has been pumped out.
With hole saw in the cut, I plan to vacuum up chips during the cut. Then vacuum out whatever falls inside the tank, along with existing sludge. The SeaBuilt web site provides instructions. BTW, the tank already has been pumped out.
Is this a fiber tank or metal? The H31 is fiber and I found no baffles inside at all. While I was chopping up the tank I also added a new pickup tube and return for a fuel polishing system. The pickup goes to a diesel filter then to an electric fuel pump that pump the filtered fuel back into the tank via the return.
Turns out the tank still had a manufacturer's label on it (in a location I originally couldn't get to). Armed with a phone number and model number, I found out the original Utah company was no longer in business, but the person who answered the phone referred me to another welding company nearby, some of whose employees had worked for the OEM and who remembered that, indeed, there was a single baffle, separating the roughly rectangular tank into two roughly square sections. Now I know where not to cut.