Re: Putting water in an old 300 gallon gas tank

Posted by Dan-IA on June 03, 2006 at 17:11:38 from (207.177.13.221):

In Reply to: Putting water in an old 300 gallon gas tank posted by Blue3992 on June 03, 2006 at 10:59:36:

Well, you could always wash it out the way I have in the past... Fill it up, dump in about half a bottle of dishwashing (sink) soap, and take it out to a pasture or some grassy knoll with a little pickup, and then just put it in L1 and go a little and slam on the brakes. You don't even have to touch the gas pedal unless you're going uphill. Repeat about 3-5 times, then go back and open the valve so it'll slowly drain. Then get back in the pickup and go forward a little (just barely moving is plenty), slam on the brakes and stop again. Keep doing this until the tank goes empty. This causes a whole lot of sloshing going on in the tank. For a 300 gallon tank, you might take an hour and travel almost 2 miles before the tank runs empty. The dishwasher soap doesn't seem to bother much (never even killed the grass.) Then fill it again, second time with just water, and just open the valve and let it drain someplace. After that, I wouldn't hesitate to use it for anything but potable water.

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