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My '88 apparently has dirty contaminated fuel. Any suggestion on how to remedy this. How difficult is it to drop the gas tank.


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I have a 1984 34 foot Regal Royale with rear twins. It has one large 80+ gallon tank directly below the walking area of those beds. There is a lot of working room up under there....about 10 inches of room ABOVE the tank. Mine has a drain plug on it and with the room above the tank, I can remove the sending unit etc...without dropping the tank. You could possible siphon out the old fuel. Although I have never done so, the tank looks pretty easy to unstrap and drop.
 
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Thanks for the good info -- mine has a rear full size bed and the large water tank ~60gal is underneath. Not sure where the gas tank 100 gal is located. sure sounds like a major job.... Some guy saw the MH and he want it for 13K -- For 13k - my problems will go away ......


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sure sounds like a major job.... .


Just a coupla hours to drop it if the nuts are not frozen.

A quick thing to try would be to remove the drain plug, drain it and flush it with fresh gas.


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DRAIN PLUGS this thing has drain plugs?????

I gotta look for them.. thanks for the tip


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DRAIN PLUGS this thing has drain plugs?????

I gotta look for them.. thanks for the tip


Well, mine does. All Barths are not the same, but.........maybe.................


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If you do have to drop the tank try to get out as much fuel as possible to make the tank lighter. Use a floor jack under it if you can. A couple of years ago i had to pull the tank on my jeep in a rv park and that was not a lot of fun.
 
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