INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Before removing the tank, you'll have to jack the car up. Do this by positioning a car jack underneath the car and slowly moving it into the air. This will provide space for you to get underneath the vehicle. Consider using two jacks to securely lift your vehicle. Position the jack or jacks under the jack points of the car. Consult your owner's manual for these locations. Before cleaning the tank, make sure to remove it from the car. By removing it, you'll be able to properly drain, inspect, and clean it. To remove the tank, disconnect screws and straps that hold it in place. Make sure you are not directly below the tank when disconnecting it. Use another jack, preferably a transmission jack, to lower the fuel tank. After you've removed the tank, you need to drain it completely of any fuel that might remain in it. The extent of this process may depend on the age of the tank, how much fuel is left, or the style of the tank. To drain it: Use a suction device to transfer the gasoline into a storage container. If there is some liquid you still can't' remove, turn the tank upside down and allow it to drain into a container. You may find that sludge or other debris will move out with any remaining gasoline If your tank still smells of gasoline after you've drained it, you may need to degrease it. You'll find that you get much better results by degreasing the tank. Use a degreaser like Marine Clean. Try mixing dish detergent with hot water. Let the degreaser or soap and water mix sit in the tank for up to 24 hours. If the degreaser or soap mixture does not work after 24 hours, consider degreasing the tank again for a longer period of time. After removing the tank, you'll want to take a pressure washer and spray down the inside of the tank. This will help dislodge dirt, debris, and small flakes of rust. It will also help rinse out gasoline sediment. Use a pressure washer or a regular garden hose and sprayer to clean the inside of the tank. You may need to point the sprayer at different angles to remove light rust and other sediment buildup from inside the tank. If the tank has substantial rust or other grime in it, you may need to use commercial solutions to remove it. These solutions work by chemically breaking down rust. After using them, you'll be able to rinse and remove debris from your tank. Think about professional grade acid solutions that will dissolve rust in a tank. Cleaning solutions should only be used on tanks that have been sitting for a long time. After you've used cleaning solution or even a degreaser like a light soap, you'll need to rinse the tanks several times so suds or soap residue is completely removed. If you don't remove all chemical residue from the tank, you may wind up damaging your engine. After you've loosened built up sediment and rust, empty the tank and refill it again to get any more debris that did not wash away. Rinse the tank until there are no bubbles or foam present in the water. This might require you to rinse it 2 to 3 times..

SUMMARY: Jack the car up. Remove the gas tank from the car. Drain the tank. Degrease the tank. Pressure wash the tank. Use cleaning solution. Rinse the tank.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: There are a couple of different ways to write and deliver jokes including the traditional set up and punchline, one-liners, or short stories. One liners can be an extremely effective format. Comedian BJ Novak made the simple and effective, if tasteless, one-liner: "Battered women: sounds delicious." Novak's joke plays on two elements you can incorporate into your material: surprise and twisting word meanings. It's also a traditional set up and punchline type of joke. Jokes as a short story are another effective method. However, remember to keep them short! A good example of a joke wrapped in a short story is: "There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed a desire to become a "great" writer. When asked to define "great" he said "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, wail, howl in pain, desperation, and anger!" He now works for Microsoft writing error messages." Every joke, no matter what structure you use, has a set up and a punchline. The set up and punchline will sometimes contain elements of surprise based on assumptions, twisting words, or playing on ironies. Remember "less is more." As you prepare your set up and punchline, remember that you will want to tell your joke in as few words as possible. Avoid unnecessary details and phrases. BJ Novak's joke "Battered women: sounds delicious" and the joke "What did the cake say to the knife? You wanna piece of me?" are examples of jokes that demonstrate the "less is more" strategy. Any other details would have caused the jokes to fall flat. Your set up should be one or two lines, or a few lines for a story. It prepares your audience by creating an expectation and giving them the details they need to understand the punchline. The joke about the dead cactus is a good example of this. The comedian sets up the joke with the lines "I bought a cactus. A week later it died." The punchline is the "funny" part of your joke that will make people laugh. It builds on the set up and is only one word or one sentence. It often reveals the surprise, irony, or word play to your audience. Again, the dead cactus joke is a good example of a short and funny punchline. After setting up the audience with the details of his plant cactus, the comedian tells us: And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert." ." Elements such as familiarity, exaggeration, and irony will enhance your joke. A good example of exaggeration and irony is the story about the young man with great aspirations. Most listeners will expect that he fulfilled his wish to write "stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, wail, howl in pain, desperation, and anger!" through novels or short stories. Instead, the surprise is that "He now works for Microsoft writing error messages." Tags and toppers are additional punchlines that build upon your first punchline. You can use tags and toppers as a way to get extra laughs without writing a new joke or needing to set up any material. For example, you could add a topper to the short story by saying "In fact, he's the one screaming, crying, wailing, and howling in pain the most." Before you tell your joke to friends or any audience, practice delivering it. You'll need to find the joke funny for your audience to feel the same! If you don't find the joke funny or somehow off, revise it until it works for you.

SUMMARY:
Consider your joke structure. Write the set up and punchline. Heighten the joke's surprise factor. Add tags or toppers. Practice your joke.