I love the taste of petrol in the morning

Recently, my sisters bug developed a fuel leak in the left rear rubber line just before the engine, so I decided to replace all the rubber lines just to be safe.

Tonight I finished putting all the lines on (ran out of clamps that would fit the slightly thicker line). When I poured petrol into the tank, I jumped underneath to check out the in-line filter installed before the car was painted about 4 months ago. The fuel filter has been placed directly underneath the fuel tank and so usually fills up via gravity feed. This time the fuel filter is empty, so I put some more fuel into the tank. Still empty.

Looks like the tank might have some crud in it, blocking the line coming from the tank. I took the end off of the fuel pump and sucked (drinking some residual fuel in the process) and blew and seems that whatever is blocking the line is stuck hard.

Is it safe to put an air compressor on this end and pressurize the line hopefulling unsticking whatever gunk is in there?

Cheers

[ Edited on 6-9-2006 by doc5avage ]

Remove the petrol cap first to allow the pressure to relieve itself.

Heads Up I had he same problem. Turned pushing it back into the tank just meant you delayed blocking it further -later. The pick up is quite low and appears to collect all the crud- particularly when you run dry! AS Helbus said, its quite easy to blow back into the tank once you take the cap off. If the tank is rusty search for fuel tank sealer on yahoo in Australia.
POR15 kits cost about 100 bucks and work a treat! Available from panel beater supplies.