Fuel cell foam

NCDieselWrench

NCDieselWrench

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Anyone have any experience running a fuel cell with or without foam. Is it absolutely necessary? I'm trying to figure out if I need it for mine, basically the truck will serve double duty and info is helpful, thanks.
 
Mine has foam in it, kinda makes it a pain to refill because the fuel hits it and spatters all over the place. (Read inside the truck). I have to put the pump nozzle in sideways and shoot the fuel along the top of it to avoid this.
 
The foam in my fuel cell started to break down and stoped up my fuel pump in Mtn city. took about 2 years took break down. I would take it out.
 
I know this sounds like some crazy:poop:... I read about this in a racing magazine a few years ago and it works very well.

You take empty plastic oil bottles and swiss cheese 1&1/2" holes in them. After using the hole saw, blow them out good with air and stack them in rows inside the cell.

The plastic dosent break down in the gas and it will keep the fuel slosh down just as well as the foam. I filled up my 22 gal cell in a dirt track car with the same amount of gas both ways, so they dont take up any more space than the foam. It basicaly makes a plastic baffle inside.
 
I am going to dumb this thread down a little... sorry.

Why do you not just use baffles in a fuel cell just like a regular gas tank?
 
Nothing in my cell but diesel.
 
BigClay said:
I am going to dumb this thread down a little... sorry.
Why do you not just use baffles in a fuel cell just like a regular gas tank?
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Hard to do with a prebuilt plastic/aluminum cell that only has a 4" hole in the top. The other way it's done without baffles is to run a walbro screen pickup in each corner or a weighted hose...but you still have a ton of fuel slosh.
 
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