I just completed flushing my tanks. As I said before I noticed the sight gauges had browned, on the bottom part of the tank I could barely see the fuel level!! Now that I have completed flushing the tanks, I can see the fuel level on the gauges. It stripped out most of the brown, almost back to new. Today I was somewhat surprised how much foreign material I got out of the tanks! In touching the inside of the tanks it is no longer Sticky!
I got hose splicers and some fuel line to run the lines directly from the fuel tank into 5 Gallon Gas Cans for disposal, and to assure myself that the Acetone did not git on the Paint! When I was ready to drain the tanks, I set a 5 gallon gas can on the ground on the passengers side. I then folded the hose over to crimp off the flow removed the hose clamps, pulled the drill bits out of the hose, stuffed the end of the hose into the gas cans and no mess!
I covered both wings with plastic taping it on with painters tape. see the attached pictures.
I sealed the vents using 1/4 inch fuel line with 1/4 inch drills inserted in each to keep fuel from splashing out.
Finally when finished I taped Paper Towels over the tank fillers to assure nothing got in.
Now to start on the Annual, Steve my A&P / AI is stuck in Chicago, but we will get that started in a week!
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