If I had already trashed a new fuel pump, I'd definitely go ahead and replace the tank with a known good tank. Wouldn't it just totally suck to go to all the effort of steam cleaning the tank and putting it back in only to fug up yet another fuel pump and having to repeat the whole process?

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