How to clean a cruddy gas tank

[ehgauss]

I was recently given a snowblower, which had not been run in a number of years. The gas tank has black, smelly, crud in it. I'm sure some of you old chain saw restorers have faced this. What is a good method to clean it up? Thanks. Gene Gauss

 

[dustytools]

I am not an old pro, but I usually just dump in some mixed gas and shake it around for a bit then dump it out. You might have to repeat a few times but this usually does the trick for me. Good luck.

 

[Urbicide]

Sounds like you might have replace a fuel filter and lines and rebuild the carb too.opcorn:

 

[ASEMASTER]

this works on most tanks

empty your tank, get some good carb cleaner or if you dare acetone or methalethalketone, this will kill one out of ten, so use wisley, a hand full of 1/4" nuts and shake the bee out of it. dump and repeat untill clean.