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Gut it.....? Sacrilege!!!

Take a rag and shove in the intake pipe and take another rag and shove in the exit pipe just before you put a hose and nozzle in it if you want to keep the guts. But I agree, with DB, gut it, makes it alot lighter and easier to handle. Pumps usually sell just as good with the guts intact vs a gutted pump.

Hope the helps/

Easy G. Butler

I almost always gut all the pumps but this one is a show case pump wayne 60S,And there are a lot of fake ones made that are not show case pumps so trying to keep this one origanal.

Try using a can of expanding spray foam from a hardware store. Buy the LARGE gap and crack version so it really swells up to block off the passages. It can always be removed (dug out) down the road if someone wants it fully functional.

If you run water through it first, I would think the guts would rust. Maybe run kerosene through it instead. Kerosene has far less lingering odor than stale gas.

I spilled about a quart of kerosene on the carpeted floor of a truck once. Thought I'd ruined it. Let it air out for a couple sunny days and the smell was totally gone. If it had been stale gas, that truck would still stink.

Good luck!