Fuel issues 84 270 Sundancer Question about pickup tube

[cherokeeguy]

Long storry short got the boat ready for a great late summer weekend on the water last weekend, for some reason i couldnt shake the feeling that i got some bad gas friday night and sure enough as soon as i went to but the boat on plane it died, luckly i have seperate tanks and had only taken fuel on one side so i switched tanks and headed back to port, emptyed the water strainer and all seemed fine with the bad tank, ran the boat about 9 miles at 3300 stumbled a few times and started to run low on fuel and wouldnt run over 3000 with out dieing, spent a great day at the boat show and cleaned out the water strainer as well as the in card filter again and went to head back when i found the boat would no longer run anything over high idle on the bad tank, switched tanks again and ran all the way back to home. My question is has anyone taken the fuel pickup tube out of the tank on these boats, is there a screen or filter at the end of it that could be pluged, is the pickup tube welded in the tank or can i bring it up out of the top of the tank to inspect things. Any knowlege about these tanks and pickups would help. Thanks

 

[Quint4]

I pulled mine out of my 1992 and here is a few pics of it (my poor running was ultimately solved with a new edelbrock carb).

 

[tbirdvet]

When you say cleaned out the water strainer I assume you mean the water separating filter system in the fuel line? When you switch tanks are you running on the same fuel filter or does each tank have it's own filter? Just want to make sure the filter itself is not the culprit.

 

[cherokeeguy]

Awsome thanks for the pics, i am pretty sure that the carb and fuel system is all good as the boat runs perfect just be swapping the tank, but seeing that type of pick up tube i wouldnt be surprised if what ever was in the fuel i got isnt stuck in the tube and blocking most of it

Right the fuel filter/seperator, same filter for both tanks, basicly the fuel system consistes of the two side mounted tanks, fuel lines that run to the center of the boat through shut of valves for each, and then through a single line down to the filter/seperator and then to the motor, so the only thing that changes when swapping tanks is the pick up tubes in the tanks and the gas it self

 

[hoi paloi]

i have an 84 seadancer my my piick up tupes are aluminim the filter sock inside did the job it cloged up cleaned it and put it rite back good as gold