| Removal of fuel tank completed
I finished the job of removing the tank, and it wasn't too bad. First, I drained almost all of the fuel using the fuel supply hose and an electric fuel pump. Then I poured in a gallon of degreaser and an equal volume of water. I tested the resulting mixture and it refused to burn, so I began cutting with a reciprocating saw. The actual cutting went quite fast using a heavy duty bimetal blade with 14 teeth per inch. First, I cut out the sides before and aft of the baffle. Then I removed the "soup" that remained inside the tank. Given poor access to the front and back of the tank, I finished the cutting with the saw inside the tank. Overall, it is a task one person can complete from start to finish in a day. In my case, however, temperatures of 95-104 F led me to spread the work over two days.
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