Best Practices of Gas Tank restoration, Little Rust in the bottom |
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Best Practices of Gas Tank restoration, Little Rust in the bottom |
Aaron Cox |
Mar 19 2012, 11:52 AM
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Whats the best practices of gas tank resto? Pulled the tank, and the bottom has plenty of rust, but not really flaking. Ideas? You experiences? Heard muriatic(Sp?) acid + a bit of water for a few days does wonders.... |
TravisNeff |
Mar 19 2012, 12:54 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,082 Joined: 20-March 03 From: Mesa, AZ Member No.: 447 Region Association: Southwest Region |
clean it out through electrolysis, there are a couple of threads on how to do it here. fill up your tank with water, add in about 1 cup of washing soda - take a battery charger, ground to the tank & insert some rebar in the filler hole (insulated from tank) and attach your hot lead to it. I did this on a 10 amp charge and it took me several days until it was all cleaned out.
get the caswell 2 part epoxy tank seal kit I called a radiator shop and they said it would be around 200 for a cleanout and seal. the way I did it above was $63 |
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