You'll get stuck on cattle guards..😁

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019, 3:16 PM Richard Koerner <rjkinpb@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Getting ready to take a roadtrip to Colorado; the last time I went there,
> I had a bad experience.  Fuel tank outlet got clogged with rust and debris;
> high altitudes and hot temperatures in late summer was my doom.  You know
> the drill....fuel pump cavitating, injectors starving for liquid gasoline
> not bubbly gasoline.  Got it all fixed with a new fuel tank.
> Got me thinking though.  What about the idea of sticking about 12
> neodymium (rare earth) magnets on the underside of the fuel tank?  Spread
> around.  The idea is that the inevitable rust particles that form will get
> attracted and stuck to the areas where the magnets are.  You wouldn't even
> have to epoxy them on or anything; they are very very strong.  So, instead
> of all these rust particles naturally flowing to the outlet, they are stuck
> at the 12 points.  Could buy a lot of time, decades even.
>
> Back in 85 when my Vanagon was built, magnets such as these were indeed
> "rare".  Nowadays, they are readily available.
> What do you think?
> Rich
> San Diego
>