Foreign Object in BX1500 Fuel Tank

[bxonthelake]

My grandchild managed drop a marble into my fuel tank. I can't see it because the tank is full, maybe when empty I can get it out.
Until then, is there a screen or something to keep it from getting somewhere it can do damage. Or could the marble act like a ball valve and stop up a pipe?
I hope not.
Thanks,
JD

 

[whis]

it could block fuel line

 

[TnAndy]

My 2012 Yanmar came with some Foreign Objects in the tank. After replacing the fuel solenoid TWICE, somebody at the dealer noticed the fuel filter bowl (plastic) actually caving inward when the tractor quit running ( which it did frequently and they couldn't figure out why....thinking it was an electronic problem ).....they jerked the fuel line off the tank...almost no fuel coming out....stuck a thin screwdriver up in the tank line port, and got flooded with fuel.

Turned out some plastic drill shavings ( from installing the tank port ), and some other FO were rolling around in the tank, and blocking fuel from time to time. As the tech said "Visualize a marble rolling around in the tank........"

 

[k0ua]

"Visualize a marble rolling around in the tank........"

Now, that there is funny, considering the prior circumstances.:laughing: Yeah a marble sounds like just the thing to act as a "check valve" some day when you least want or expect it. If this was just some odd shaped plastic fuel spout, I would say leave it in, but the marble? I say pull the tank and get it out..

James K0UA

 

[rbarker]

My grandchild managed drop a marble into my fuel tank. I can't see it because the tank is full, maybe when empty I can get it out. Until then, is there a screen or something to keep it from getting somewhere it can do damage. Or could the marble act like a ball valve and stop up a pipe? I hope not. Thanks, JD

I think a marble is too big to travel anywhere that it might cause damage but I would think it pretty likely to find its way to the tank outlet and restrict the fuel flow. I would try to find a way to remove it if possible.

Good luck,

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[EastTexFrank]

it could block fuel line

It probably won't get in to the fuel line but it will certainly block up the tank outlet to the fuel line. I did it with a piece of a magnolia leaf that I knocked into the tank. I read of a guy that did it with a wasp that flew into his tank while he was filling it. A marble would seem to be perfect fit for blocking the outlet. Nothing for it but to drain the tank and take it off, turn it upside down, retrieve the marble and give it back to your grandson.

I should mention that I tried just about everything to get that darned leaf out of there before I gave up and took the tank out. Good luck. (Can your grandson sit down yet?)

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

I dropped the fuel spout off of a plastic fuel can into mine once and it didn't really bother anything but it just nagged at me so I just go so aggravated one day and decided to get it out. I considered taking the time to take the fuel tank off, which I decided later would have been the better way, but I didn't.:confused3: If I had it to do over I believe that's the way I'd do it.:thumbsup: Any way just wanted to give you another option.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

The plastic spout floated out with the fuel but you may have to shake yours a bit to get the marble to roll out or just flip it on over to upside down. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

[Baby Grand]

Get one of those long handled dipper screens that people use with their fish tanks, bend the wire around the net so it'll fit into the neck of the tank the tank and go fishin'!

 

[RalphVa]

I had some blobs of wax drop out one cold winter and partly blocked the fuel flow out of the tank. I got them out with a mechanics fish tool, one of those grabber things with a push button on the end.

 

[Bota4me]

I dropped the fuel spout off of a plastic fuel can into mine once and it didn't really bother anything but it just nagged at me so I just go so aggravated one day and decided to get it out. I considered taking the time to take the fuel tank off, which I decided later would have been the better way, but I didn't.:confused3: If I had it to do over I believe that's the way I'd do it.:thumbsup: Any way just wanted to give you another option.
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Ya, just find a little bank and let her go over!!
Nice & convenient for getting to things john
Fuel & oil filters are a breeze

 

[bxonthelake]

Thanks guys,
So I'm hearing that it will not go anywhere to cause damage (thank The Lord), but it is likely to act as a fuel flow plug. I was hoping that there was a screen over the outlet. I'm going to look at the tank today and see just how difficult it is to remove. I may siphon the diesel out and try to go fishing with a claw or probe first.

Anyway, thanks so much to the collective knowledge on this forum. We can really help each other sometimes.
JD

 

[SoGeorgia]

Don't most tanks have a stand pipe of sorts so stuff that settles at the bottom of the tank won't get in the line? On my 3000 it's an in tank filter that stands an inch or so from the bottom.

 

[mccash40]

I remember when I was a kid, the first thing my dad did when he bought a new Colman lantern, was to throw a small handful of buckshot in the tank. He said it stopped rust from forming as they rolled around. Of course with the modern gas tank, this wouldn't happen. Good luck in finding the marble.

 

[GolfAddict]

Drain the fuel off, then make the grandkid stick his skinny little arm down there and pluck it out.

 

[kuboman]

I would not panic and run the tractor till the tank gets near empty then fish the marble out. If it plugs up the line before that then all you need to do is shut off the tractor give it a shake and restart and away you go again.
The BX does not have a very deep tank and the fuel outlet is below the filler so you should not have much trouble fishing the marble out once you get rid of some fuel.

 

[dodge man]

A BX tank isn't very deep, but it is the full width of the tractor and odd shaped. It might be hard to get out if its on the far side of the tank from the filler spout.