Found inside gas tank

RobRightmyer · Nov 24, 2019

My son and I were cleaning out our 1928 regular gas tank to seal it and when I shook the tank we could hear something moving inside.

After we got the first one out, we could still hear something.

We've figured possibly it's normal to have dropped two gas can nozzles in over 91 years.

I've attached a picture of the nozzles and the tank

JF in MI · Nov 24, 2019

Yeah, I have a number of 5 gal tanks with that in them.

jon f mn · Nov 24, 2019

For a couple years I had
trouble with my dc dieing
intermittently, always with
blocked flow. Would run great
for days or minutes, then die.
Looked inside and the tank
looked clean. Then one day the
tank was low and I looked in
there and there was a cap from
a jug in there. At random
times that would get over the
hole and block it off. Got
that out and no issues since.

casecollectorsc · Nov 24, 2019

When I got bought my 30 model L Case it had several wrenches in the gas tank. Grandson of the fella I bought it from remembered taking them from the tool box and putting them in the tank.

Geo-TH,In · Nov 24, 2019

Last year I had trouble with terramite
dying under heavy. First I thought it
was low on gas. Come to find out

The elbow at bottom of tank was choked
with crap.

I had similar problem with the elbow on
Jubilee carb.
George.

Richard G. · Nov 24, 2019

The 49 JD A I grew up on had an old rough looking small tree limb in it that my uncle had used to check how much gas was in it and dropped it.
Ran for years like that and was that way when I traded it years later for a 39 hand crank A.
Richard in NW SC

47fivewindow · Nov 24, 2019

Our shop took on the repair of an IH skidsteer 3200 with a Wisconsin engine that quit when hot. After tune up, carb over haul, valve job, and about 5 combacks, we found part of a Twinkey wrapper in the gas tank. You could not see it with a flash light, and the tank had been drained once.

teddy52food · Nov 24, 2019

I remember dad had trouble with the Farmall B when it had a heavy load for a long time
it would quit. He finally found there are 2 holes in the stem of the sediment bulb &
one had a kernel of oats in it.

bwillett · Nov 24, 2019

Took the gas tank off of my 1936 Allis Chalmers WC last week to get it cleaned out and found a plastic spout just like that one in it.....

2late4me · Nov 24, 2019

Worked on an 8n Ford. The guy had lost the gas cap so he used a plastic sandwich bag with a rubber band to hold it on,as tank went empty sucked the bag in. There were seven sandwich bags in the tank,
several years worth as he only used it a few hours a year.

pete 23 · Nov 24, 2019

Good one.

old · Nov 24, 2019

I've had nozzles fall and into tanks in the past. Or have the wind blow some leaves into the tank and cause problems. I have even found money in gas tanks like a penny or dime etc.

Hayfarmer · Nov 24, 2019

when I worked for the JD dealer I found a screw driver in the gas tank of one tractor, plastic handle was mostly deteriorated away. I also found a wrench in the bottom of the transmission of a 4010.

unc · Nov 24, 2019

I found this stick in the tank of my 37 JD D. I think it had been there awhile. unc

DoubleO7 · Nov 24, 2019

That is a nice piece of driftwood, I mean tankwood.
More rare than the driftwood that sells for good money down here.

unc · Nov 24, 2019

(quoted from post at 12:05:50 11/24/19) That is a nice piece of driftwood, I mean tankwood.
More rare than the driftwood that sells for good money down here.[

/quote]

I might have the market cornered. I know there is a stick floating around in the gas tank on my MM ZTU. unc

Hobo,NC · Nov 24, 2019

My grandpas 1010 would always stall in the field, one day there it was sitting in the middle of a field and my uncle footing it. For reason I will not cover I had not spoken a word to him in 20 years. Curiosity got me so I stopped and talked to him I told him I was going to get a chain and pull it to my shop and fix it.

It was not getting fuel in the carb a no brainer what I found was red lint in the screen at the elbow. I looked into the tank it was clean it also looked like someone had put a fiberglass patch in the bottom of the tank.... WTF...

I got a hook and went fishing I pulled out a red shop rag it was laying perfectly flat on the bottom of the tank. My guess it had been there 40 plus years...

When my uncle came to pick it up we sat down had a talk and buried the hatchet... : ) BTW my new Bota has a spout off a fuel can in the tank I retrieved the spring from the innards of the spout but not the spout...

muleboss · Nov 24, 2019

I had a 440 Oliver that had a 4 inch by 6 chin flat about 1/16 inch thick piece of metal in it. Had to be put there when made. Still there when I sold it. Some times when on rough ground it wood bounce over the fuel outlet and then cut out.

Copperhead don't play · Nov 25, 2019

For some reason when we were teenagers, my friend always put the coins he got back in change when he bought gas into the tank. I don't know why because we were always broke.

Texasmark1 · Nov 25, 2019

Ball bearing-loose balls here and they worked in keeping the rust off the bottom.

Guy down the road used to package nails for a big box store. He'd get 50# boxes of nails in totally rust covered. He'd dump them in his tumbler with a
load of rocks and coarse sand, tumble for a time and out they'd come nice and shiny.

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