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#280345 Wed Oct 19 2011 11:15 AM
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I AM GOING TO PUMP WATER AND SOAP THREW THE PUMP TO TRY TO GET THE GAS SMELL OUT SO I CAN KEEP THE PUMP IN THERE WILL THIS WORK?OR WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS DONE?


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hotrodfun1 #280347 Wed Oct 19 2011 11:19 AM
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Hang a big green Evergreen tree air freshner in there Scott....take it out of your truck...lol


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I have never done it but be prepared to get some old gas to come out when you start. Lots of old gas left in these pumps.

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keithia #280352 Wed Oct 19 2011 11:40 AM
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Thanks kim for the good idea lol I have some around here to put in there i think i will go cut a real tree down and put it in the show case part LOL that should help for a little while.


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Years ago, I had an oil jobber tell me that in order to clean the gasoline out of a tank truck, he put a box of Tide powdered laundry soap in the truck and drove it around to stir things up. Once he dumped the load, all was clean. He did this in order to use the tanker for filling swimming pools, in the summer? Paul www.severngaspumps.com

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Take the pump out, drain the old gas, and then have it tank dipped. That will clean it inside and out.
That worked well for removing the lubester smell that I needed to get rid of.
Tank dipping is also a cheap route to go.
Good luck...


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Pump Mineral oil or Anti-freeze threw it. Water & soap will permit pump Rusting up inside.

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FABREZE IT! wink


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DB that is all you got?LOL


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I have the answer, leave it just outside your shop, Ill swing by tonight, and by morning you wont smell a thing wink


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Ok that is funny just about fell out of my chair LOL LOL sounds like my wife sorry,she tells me to sell this junk and then when i sell something she gets mad.Anyway that is a good idea but you are going to have two what a long time before that happens.LOL


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I do wonder about a shop full of old gas pumps caked in Benzine and who knows what else? I happen to love the smell of old pumps, but it cant be healthy?


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YA I WON'T TO PUT THIS ONE IN THE HOUSE WITH THE OTHERS BUT THE WARDEN (WIFE)SAID NOT TELL THE SMELL IS GONE................................HELP


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GUT IT

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Why????


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Gut it.....? Sacrilege!!!


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Take a rag and shove in the intake pipe and take another rag and shove in the exit pipe just before you put a hose and nozzle in it if you want to keep the guts. But I agree, with DB, gut it, makes it alot lighter and easier to handle. Pumps usually sell just as good with the guts intact vs a gutted pump.

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I almost always gut all the pumps but this one is a show case pump wayne 60S,And there are a lot of fake ones made that are not show case pumps so trying to keep this one origanal.


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Try using a can of expanding spray foam from a hardware store. Buy the LARGE gap and crack version so it really swells up to block off the passages. It can always be removed (dug out) down the road if someone wants it fully functional.

If you run water through it first, I would think the guts would rust. Maybe run kerosene through it instead. Kerosene has far less lingering odor than stale gas.

I spilled about a quart of kerosene on the carpeted floor of a truck once. Thought I'd ruined it. Let it air out for a couple sunny days and the smell was totally gone. If it had been stale gas, that truck would still stink.

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