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Rotten gas (The original blog written on 15th Aug. 2007)

From holidays in May 2007 I started my operation to revive my "onboro ALFA".
First of all I tried to remove the rotten gas that was left for 10 years in the fuel tank, but it was not easy.

I thought I could remove it from the drain bolt at the bottom of tank.  But the bolt was sticking and it could not be loosen.

Then, I tried to remove gas from the fuel hose by activating electric fuel pump, but the fuel pump only did blank beating and the fuel didn’t come.

After thinking for a while, I went to buy a hand pump for kerosene stove and a long vinyl hose to suck the gas from a fuel filler port.  AS a result of efforts for more than an hour with a cheap hand pump, finally I extracted 20L of horrible brown liquid and a lot of rust pieces from the tank.
I filled the tank with new gas…but of course the inside of tank is still very rusty.  It was just the beginning of my long way...
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