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As some of you may know, my F4's fuel pump failed on me after not being started for about 6 months. So today I went to replace it and found some alarming things going on in my tank.
First, a bit of history.
Noel helped me delete the evap system inside the tank about 1.5 years ago. We had also replaced the fuel filter and most of the fuel hoses inside the tank with Good Year fuel hoses. There was only 1 hose in there that we didn't replace.
So keeping in mind that we had replaced all but 1 hose in there about a year and a half ago, this is what I removed from the tank today
ALL of the hoses inside the tank had turned into mush, the new ones, the original one we didn't replace, ALL of them!
Only 1.5 years later, the ethanol had eaten away at all of the hoses. Do yourself a favor and take out and inspect your fuel hoses. If ethanol did this in 1.5 years to mine, Im sure the rest of yours will not be any different.




First, a bit of history.
Noel helped me delete the evap system inside the tank about 1.5 years ago. We had also replaced the fuel filter and most of the fuel hoses inside the tank with Good Year fuel hoses. There was only 1 hose in there that we didn't replace.
So keeping in mind that we had replaced all but 1 hose in there about a year and a half ago, this is what I removed from the tank today
ALL of the hoses inside the tank had turned into mush, the new ones, the original one we didn't replace, ALL of them!
Only 1.5 years later, the ethanol had eaten away at all of the hoses. Do yourself a favor and take out and inspect your fuel hoses. If ethanol did this in 1.5 years to mine, Im sure the rest of yours will not be any different.



