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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ward" data-source="post: 138141" data-attributes="member: 25583"><p>After washing out the tank spray a liberal amount of 91% rubbing alcohol in the tank as it will pick up the water and flush it out, then purge it with air and it will dry out quite quickly, I did this on a job site to a John Deere 160 excavator hat got caught in a marsh area on the lower Potomac River about 60 miles south of Washington DC, when the tide came in they went out to the machine on a boat and hand dipped the fuel out of the tank as the tide came in, they had started their day setting pads to run the machine on and had set 4 or 5 ouf them the operator swung around to get another one and the next thing he knew he was looking at the sky, he swung around and stuck the boom down and the machine stopped sinking as the floor was going in the mud, it was about a 30 k lb machine, they brought in 3 cat 977 to pull it out then called us to get it running, funny thing with it tipped on its nose the engine never went under water when the tide came in.</p></blockquote><p></p>