Gas Tanks

[rtresise]

i got stranded in a park on top of a mountain with a rig that wouldn't start.  Found a plugged fuel filter.  Got it home and dropped the tank to flush it and found a six foot rubber hose in various stages of decomposition.  Many small "jello feeling" pieces that were being sucked into the fuel system.  Can't figure how it got into the tank as the tank is 3' +/- ftom the filler cap.  I couldn't even push a hose in to drain the gas.  Had to disconnect it filler hose at the tank to get a siphon hose in.  Any ideas?

[John Eversoll]

   Well, that is a new one....  if you don't have a locking gas cap then that would be how the stuff got in...

As for what it is....

I myself have three in line filters now!!!!

"just to make sure that NO crap ends up in the carb....... then just before the carb I have

another glass inline filter... So four total..  Doesn't seem to have a fuel restriction so

if it works---  It works....  Oh yea, don't foreget to install the fuel vapor line -- like I did..

Then I had to drop it again...........sigh..............  John

[Horst]

Maybe someone tried to siphon/steal gas out of the tank long ago - then the hose broke, (and he/she took off?)
then over time the hose decomposes?
just guessing........