3 tons wrote:
Before starting, buy a short length of pex and set it in gasoline for a period of time, then inspect to determine if it was irreversably affected...
Excellent idea! Also taste some water from the pipe after trying the cleaning suggestions.
It may well be worth removing the tank for cleaning but I wouldn’t buy a new one before trying to clean it and tasting the result.
Hmm, I wonder if mouthfuls of leaded gasoline could have contributed to the epidemic of Alzheimer’s as lead pollution did to the crime rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis