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Troy-Bilt TB146 EC cultivator gas tank hoses
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bruce bowser
Mar 9, 2021, 1:28:50 PM3/9/21
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On Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 9:59:29 AM UTC-5, dan wrote in alt.home.repair:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:42:20 -0600, Snag wrote:
> > The hoses are a tight slip fit in the holes in the tank .
>
> OK. Good. That's what I was hoping. The larger yellow hose coming out the
> top of the carb is pulled out cleanly so am I to conclude it's the return?
>
> > The supply
> > line will usually have a filter on the inside end .
>
> The smaller greenish blue is the one that broke at the tank edge so it's
> currently blocking the hole (I can probably pick it out though).
>
> Am I to assume that's the input fuel line to the carb?
> > I install them by
> > cutting the end of the hose at a long taper to get it started in the
> > hole , pull it in as far as needed with long nose pliers or a hemostat
> > then cut it off square and install the filter.
>
> I hadn't thought of the filter. It must be still inside the tank.
I sometimes think back to when I was a kid fooling around gas tanks and hoses, etc. I remember a mesh. And I remember removing it. That must have been a filter. Damn. Geez.
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:42:20 -0600, Snag wrote:
> > The hoses are a tight slip fit in the holes in the tank .
>
> OK. Good. That's what I was hoping. The larger yellow hose coming out the
> top of the carb is pulled out cleanly so am I to conclude it's the return?
>
> > The supply
> > line will usually have a filter on the inside end .
>
> The smaller greenish blue is the one that broke at the tank edge so it's
> currently blocking the hole (I can probably pick it out though).
>
> Am I to assume that's the input fuel line to the carb?
> > I install them by
> > cutting the end of the hose at a long taper to get it started in the
> > hole , pull it in as far as needed with long nose pliers or a hemostat
> > then cut it off square and install the filter.
>
> I hadn't thought of the filter. It must be still inside the tank.
I sometimes think back to when I was a kid fooling around gas tanks and hoses, etc. I remember a mesh. And I remember removing it. That must have been a filter. Damn. Geez.
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