When it comes to the maintenance of the car, it is often seldom thought of the maintenance of the tank. The car is open for a long time. Does the tank need to be cleaned? For this problem, Zhejiang zhen'ao Auto Parts Co. Ltd. to give you answer today.

It is very necessary to clean the car's tank on a regular basis

Although the tank is half closed in addition to refueling, it is all closed at other times.  But as the age of the car increases and the service time becomes longer, the precipitating impurities in the tank will become more and more. It will inevitably enter the engine with the fuel supply system inside the car, and it will cause damage to the car for a long time. On the quality of oil products, the small editor would like to know all in mind. Oil has various impurities, gas station oil depot is also the Months and years pass by. hoarding a lot of impurities. If you fuel oil in the oil depot, you are bound to add some impurities. After entering the tank, these impurities first precipitate in the bottom of the tank. Slowly when the sediment is too much, it will get into the engine of the car with the fuel, and cause serious wear to the engine.

When is it cleaned?

The tank itself has set up protection measures, which can be waterproof and thermal insulation. If you run for a long time, it may be 30 thousand kilometers, and you will have to do the oil cleaning. Or is the replacement of filter. Otherwise, once the oil road is blocked, the gas pressure of the tank is too high. In the course of driving, the car will be flung out. Under the influence of high pressure, the tank is very easy to break open, when it is serious, oil leakage will occur, and the oil consumption will become higher.

How to clean?

The tank cleaning is divided into two steps, internal and external.

External: it is necessary to check the oil tank, oil pipe, joint and other places where there is no depression or leakage of oil. Remember to check whether the oil tank bracket screw is tightened.

Inside: open the tank mouth, remove the filter bucket, pump out the oil, only left about 30L of gasoline in the box. The cleaning plastic pipe is inserted from the filling port to the bottom of the tank, gently blowing the gasoline in the bottom of the tank to roll it to achieve the cleaning effect.

When cleaning, you can use a clean cloth to block the mouth of the refueling pipe, and then constantly change the location and direction of the plastic pipe, so as to avoid the friction oil surface sensor. After 20 minutes of washing, the gasoline is released, and the impurities in the gasoline will flow out together. It is noted that the fuel released from the tank shall be used after 72 hours of precipitation.