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Did you find the fuel pick-up filter…
When you removed the the fuel line from the tank, and if you still had the large 21mm drain plug out of the tank from the passenger’s side of the D Model, you might have noticed the fuel-pick up filter that I spoke of earlier fall out onto [...]

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The tank is drained…
Now that the tank is drained, it is time to get back to those 8mm nuts we sprayed with penetrating oil earlier. Find your 8mm, hopefully 6 point socket and get onto these nuts carefully.
If they come off easy that’s great, consider yourself lucky. What you have to remember is these [...]

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Ready to drain the tank…
Now that you have the D Model safely up on jack stands and everything is stable it is time to proceed with draining the tank of the D Model. (I will first explain this for a sedan, and then come back with the few things that are different for the [...]

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Remember the rusty tank…
As you remember… our friend stopped because he had a rusty gas tank.
The way that the D Model’s fuel tank is constructed and the way that
it is set up to draw fuel to the engine is good in theory, but in a
rusty situation it sort of works against itself.

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Over the years one of the biggest problems I saw new owners of used Citroens of any kind face with a steel fuel tank, was a rusty gas tank.
It was a BIG problem…
Even though the previous owner told him the car was run on a regular basis, there is a good chance that the [...]

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