How to drain 75 series sub tank?? (1 Viewer)

[Syeite]

Hi all,

Apologies if this is not the correct area for this thread or has been covered before - a cursory search suggested nobody is as stupid as me

In rushing to fuel up and get somewhere else, I’ve gone and dropped a small plastic cap off a fuel additive bottle (Morey’s fuel conditioner) into my 75 series troopy sub tank by accident. Everywhere I’ve rang around say they need to take off the entire sub tank to get it out. The tank is empty (I add Morey’s prior to adding fuel), and I know there’s a drain plug at the bottom of the tank.

Im wondering if with a bit of wire or something to leverage through the drain hole if I could ease the sucker out - My question is, as I’ve not been through the process of draining the sub tank before is there anything that needs to be considered? Or should I just cop the mechanics fees and have the tank dropped properly?

Many thanks in advance!

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Kind of doubt it will hurt anything if you leave it.

 

[rick_d]

There are baffles in the tank which would likely stop the cap from going toward the drain plug- which is small to begin with. Opening the pick up port or the float sensor is bigger access. Both are accessed from above and ideally the tank needs to be off.

...maybe leave it until it causes a problem?

 

[WarDamnEagle]

FWIW, that plastic bottle cap will float in petrol or diesel fuel, at least it will if it's polypropylene or HDPE. Even more reason to assume that it won't cause any issues.