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Yeah, I still haven't treated my fuel. I can't decide which one to go with. I feel I need a stabilizer and a biocide, but figuring out what brand will negatively interact with other brands of the biocide and stabilizer is confusing. Which products from the Power Service line are the compatible...

The T-fitting I was referring to was the one coming out of the tank outlet. It sticks out pretty far and I'd hate to somehow break the valve and fitting off the bottom of the tank. Here's a more top-down shot of it.

Today I finished plumbing up the tank. I used black pipe and pipe dope. The ball valve in front is for using the pump to fill the tank by putting the dispenser in the fill port on the top of the tank. It's plugged off for now until I get a hose for it. It still needs paint on the fittings and...

When I'm plumbing this up, does it matter if I use galvanized or black pipe?

I ordered the Goldenrod waterblock filter off amazon. It was a few dollars cheaper with free shipping. I'm not sure which filter it has, but I think it's the 10 micron. If not, I'll pick up the Napa one you mentioned.

Unfortunately, I've already got a couple hundred gallons in it. I'm trying to take advantage of the recently lower fuel prices. There is a threaded bung in the bottom, but it's stuck. I would have to drill it out or something. But, I really should have for multiple reasons. When I stuck the...

Bummer. I guess I'll have to go with the original Wix 24001 filter base I was looking at. Indeed, sometimes cheap doesn't work out. Those filter bases seem expensive though... However, I've changed my plans for the water separator. I can get a Goldenrod 495 water separator for about the same...

I've come into some transmission filter bases off some 900 series trucks. They have a 1 1/8-16 filter thread. So I'm trying to find a final diesel fuel filter that will work on these filter bases. All I've found so far are oil filters, and they seem to have 10+ micron filtering capability. Does...

I forgot to put it in the diagram, but there is a ball valve already on the tank that will be the valve before the filters. I'll also most likely put one on the barrel pickup just for extra insurance and to reduce spillage, since the barrel hose will not be a fixed item..

That is indeed terrible. But, I know exactly what this tank was used for and what was in it for the past 10+ years. It held around 100 gallons of gasoline at any given time. And until I sufficiently fill it enough with diesel to drive the gas vapors out, it gets my utmost respect.

I threw together a quick Visio drawing of what I had in mind. The triangles are brass 1/4 turn ball valves. All the pipe with the exception of the dispenser hose is 1" galvanized and the dispenser hose is whatever the standard size is. The second filter setup is after you suggested adding them.

My initial thoughts are to not worry about filtering the fuel when it goes into the tank. The pickup from the barrel would be after the filters and before the pump so it bypasses the filters. The diesel "assumed" clean from the fuel distribution company I buy it from, so I'm not currently...

I'm still working on my diesel storage tank and I'm ready to build the dispenser system. I'm aiming for the dispenser pump to pull fuel out of the tank, but also be able to offload barrels of new diesel into the tank. I am currently planning on using 2 Wix 24001 spin-on bases with a 24027...

This project's been on hold for a while, but I'm about to get started on it again. I bought some oil-based primer and paint to re-paint the tank with and I also drained the last bit of old gas out the tank. When I picked the tail end of the tank up and dumped the rest out, it was pretty...

I am referring to very fine rust or dirt that's the size of a grain of sand or smaller. When I get home I'll take a picture of what I got out of the tank in 5 gallons worth of gas.

The tank has no manhole, but it does have 2 2" fittings up top for filling and venting. The tank sits on a stand and has a 1" fitting about an inch from the bottom of the tank for dispensing using gravity. So, flushing the old gas out with water would be pretty trivial. Then I could weld or...

I'm not 100% sure if this is the right forum for this, but I recently obtained a 500 gallon metal fuel tank to hold off-road diesel to feed my generators and tractor. However, in its previous life it held less than 200 gallons of gasoline for years. Presumably, the inside of the tank is pretty...