Fuel tank treasures

550Doug · Aug 22, 2009

Today I decided to remove the gasoline tank and clean it out so I'd get better flow. Turns out there was little fuel and even less dirt, but after shakey-shakey out popped an old oil dipstick and 5 oldtime battery cell caps. Guess Dad must have arrived before junior got to the sixth cap. I suspect they've been in there a long time since it is a 1961 Cockshutt 540.
Anyone else find treasures in the fuel tanks?

Anonymous-0 · Aug 22, 2009

Yeah, my son put grass clippings in my lawnmower tank,--twice! he was about two. Then there was the panity-hose I don't know anything about that.

Cold Beer · Aug 22, 2009

Don't know about fuel tanks, but when we moved to the current house 10 years ago I had the septic tank pumped just because. There was a bowling ball in it.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 22, 2009

I got a Morris Minor convert from a neighbor once that the (other) little neighbor kid had played gas station with the garden hose on.

redtom · Aug 22, 2009

While restoring a Farmall 340, I took off the tank to rinse it out and a big socket like a 1 1/4 or so fell out. Whatever sizre it was, it just fit through the opening.

mowr · Aug 22, 2009

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Re: O/T What is the weirdest thing you found in a in reply to Turke Bros. Farms, 10-06-2006 15:38:55

Several years ago i bought a 140 farmall from an estate auction in Kentucky.It hadn't ran for years and they sold it to be junk.One day while
deciding what i was going to do with it,junk it or fix it up,i looked in the gas tank to see how
rusty it was and saw what looked like paper,but turned out to be several thousand dollars.

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Re: O/T What is the weirdest thing you found in a in reply to Ray, 10-06-2006 19:28:20

Didn't that just frost you? Why couldn't the 'no start' just be something simple, like a bad condenser? Ha!

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SDE · Aug 22, 2009

I read on this site, a while ago, about someone finding a coin collection in the gas tank.
URBAN LEGEND?
You decide
SDE

Anonymous-0 · Aug 23, 2009

I have a plastic gascan spout in one of mine. That's when I decided my joints were telling me to switch to 2-gallon cans.

keh · Aug 23, 2009

Years ago a child dropped a pair of pliers in the gas tank of BIL's 1941 Dodge coupe. Naturally they stayed there.

KEH

Anonymous-0 · Aug 23, 2009

About 10 years ago I bought a 1200 David Brown to use as a hay tractor. The first year I used it , the fuel filters kept stopping up. I would clean everything out and soon it would shut down again. I kept cleaning little white stringy filiment out of the fuel bowel. I finally decided to take the fuel tank off and give it a good cleaning. Then I found the problem. There was a complete bottom piece of a pair of long handle underware in there. Looked like they had been in there for years. Go figure.

Anonymous-0 · Aug 24, 2009

Back in the 70's a friend of mine worked at a Ford dealer. They kept getting a car back on warranty checks for an intermittent rumbling sound in the back of the car. After several unsuccesful checks they removed the fuel tank and opened it. Inside was a sealed pop bottle with a note. The note said, "Its about time you guys found this." Apparently it was installed at the factory as a practical joke.

Mike (WA) · Aug 24, 2009

Any kind of cloth in fuel tank probably got there as a "field expedient" gas cap when the real one was lost. A little unusual to ventilate your union suit by cutting out the tail section though- seems like it would get a little drafty!

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