Stoner Dude

is your fuel pump inside the tank or is the top hole just for the fuel sending unit?

wonder how i could confirm the mounting bolts are in the same location between your tank and my '84 tank? everything else looks the same. I could just buy the sending unit for the '86 tank.

Trident, Did you have to buy a new fuel sending unit, because the hole for my existing tank is on the side opposite the fuel outflow line. Other than that it looks like the same tank. Thanks, John

update: I removed my fuel tank and took it to a radiator repair shop. the radiator dude poured some acid in the fuel line and let it soke for like 4 days. He is able to get a wire all the way to the mesh sock deal and get a little air to blow through but it's not good enough. Now he says he is going to put a gallon of acid in the tank and melt off the fuel mesh sock deal that's at the pick up locaiton. I am going to start looking for a new tank. Does anyone know if you can still get new tanks for a 1984 GL? Online link?

i need a fuel tank for my 1984 subaru GL wagon 4wd dual range. The internal fuel line is plugged up and will not come clean. Im ready for a new tank.

OK, this sucks. what are the chances of finding a salvaged tank that has a clear fuel line? I have screwed with this line for hours and hours. I like the idea of cutting a hole in the tank, but i have never welded before. Guess I'll try the radiator shop. What is screwy is i was just driving this thing like a couple of month before it went to hell. Even thought about just making a fuel tank out of a 5 gallon bucket and seat belting it in the passenger seat, just to get back on the road.

Hello good people, Got a clogged flue line in my 84 GL wagon. If anyone has ever taken the fuel sending unit off the tank and looked in to see the fuel line you know its has like 5 or 6 bends and U-turns before it finally ends at the bottom of the tank. My issue is that somehow the fuel line got clogged with something (old gas, rust, ??) and i can't get it unclogged. I have tried to hook up an air compressor to the line and it wouldn't get it. I have tried o run braided cable hooked into a drill and drill it out but i can't get it past all the bends and uturns to actually dig at the clogged spot. I started to take off the tank but the bolts started busting off. Does anyone know of a way i can unclogg this without dropping the tank or replacing the tank? Thank. i need to know something fast because my 2001 Outback LL beam just blew a head gasket at 220K miles and i need a back up car for like two weeks. Thanks

is the sock what is clogged up? It just seems weird how it works fine one day and then the tank is clogged the next day. Do i need to remove the sock?

here is a picture of the fuel sock. Mine is doing the same thing. No gas is coming out of the hose that goes to the fuel pump. Should i try and tear the sock off?

took the rubber hose off that goes from the tank to the fuel pump, no gas came out. I went ahead and drained the gas tank via the drain screw. it had about 6 or 7 gallons of gas in it. I took the fuel sending unit off and looked inside the tank and noticed the metal gas tube has a little filter on it, see picture. Not sure if the filter is clogged or what. Is there a way to gain access to the inside of the tank? I am prepared to pull the tank and see if there is an access hole on the top??

nothing yet, it's been too hot to screw with. I'm gonna try and get out there early this weekend.

turfman, what do you mean by both sides? Did it fix your clogged tank?

to removed the screen, do i get at it from the fuel line or the top where the sending unit is placed?

dang, i was hoping i wasn't gonna have to pull the tank. what is weird is it worked fine like a month ago. what could be clogging it up so bad? rust or something?

got an update on this. got the fuel pump working and now it appears my gas tank is clogged. I even tried to blow compressed air back into the tank (gas cap off) via the fuel line and I got no gurgle noises. Any body have an idea of how to unclog the gas tank?

I had my kid work the key while i used a tester light on the feed at the pump. Tried it a bunch and never got the light to come on. If i want to drive around a while with the jumper wire version, do i need to jumper wire the other circuits that are in this harness? What about the BLK wire on the supply side?

rdweninger it's got at least 3 gallons in it. 1.5 gallons the first time i started to fix it a month or so ago and another 1.5 gallons that i just put in there a couple days ago.

its looking more and more like the Fuel Pump Control Unit (FPCU) is bad. I tested the feed wires at the fuel pump and was not getting any power with the key in any position. I took the FPCU off and tested the hot wires and they worked as indicated in the below diagram. Is there another way i can further test the FPCU to know for sure

Is this how you are thinking? One wire is all black and one wire is black with a white stripe. I want to spice into the all black wire correct? Thanks,

thanks for the input BirdMobile, lol. Gave me a good laugh there with the whole burning engine comment. I have seen that infamous module box and i was hoping i wasn't going to have to screw with it because of the contorted angle i will have to make my back in order to access it. Might be easier to just replace the whole car and move on down the road. But since im broke i'll have to screw with that module deal. Is that module dohicky availble at part stores?

Ok, here goes.......I have a 84 GL Station Wagon with a shady fuel pump. I have (2) in line see-through type fuel filters. The fuel filter that is located just before the carburetor is bone dry, the filter that is located between the gas tank and the fuel pump was full of fuel. I poured gas into the throat of the carb and it fired right up and ran for a few seconds then dies. The car has been sitting for a while but I always go out and start it ever so often to keep the battery alive. It hasn't been sitting so long that the gas has turned to varnish and i added the gas saver additive the last time i put fuel in it. I used my "hunch style trouble shooting technique" and determined the fuel pump went out. I bought and replace the fuel pump. In the process of replacing the pump i did notice when i took off the fuel line coming from the fuel tank that fuel was running out of this line so i had to plug it. (rules out a clogged tank). So with the new fuel pump and fuel pump filter installed i primed it at the carb and fired it up and it ran for a bit and died. I did this a couple times and then looked at the new fuel filter between the tank and pump and it was bone dry still. No fuel was going from the tank to the pump. So now im thinking the new pump is not getting power. The repair manual has zero info about where or if the fuel pump has a fuse or relay switch. If it does i don't know where it is. I have also been researching about the cut off relay switch. Does anyone know if there is a fuse and/or relay for the fuel pump and where that would be located??? Thanks for any help that can be offered

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