coating the inside of my gas tank ?

looking for a company who will provide a pre-paid shipping box with peanuts or bumble wrap to get my tractor gas tank sealed ( coated ) inside the tank. please let me know who does this in the new england area or futher if need be. the gas tank in question is a farmall m ,so its a pretty good size tank - please email me with any info you may have , thanks
 
lonewolf;

You can purchase a fuel tank sealer at auto parts houses such as Napa or even go online and lind them. Eastwood sells one as does POR 15 (see link). It is not difficult to do just time consuming. You also have the option of contacting your local radiator repair shop as most offer this service.
Tank sealer
 
Is the tank leaking? If so use a sealer. If not, just clean it. You can't put a sealer over a bunch of gunk, so it needs to be cleaned anyway.
Forget those sealers, they breakdown after awhile, because of innadequate adhesion.
Visit your local motorcycle shop for best guy around to clean tanks. They deal with this constantly.

Gordo
 
See if your local fertilizer dealer has any phosphoric acid. Put that in your tank for a few days. It will eat all the rust off. Then pour the acid out and rinse it with water. It works great. Then if you want you can put a sealer in it or just leave it the way it is. If its got holes you'll need to use sealer. The holes in gas tanks I've repaired I drill the holes a little bigger than they are then ping them inward with a ballpeen hammer from the outside. I then put the sealer on the inside and let it ooze out the holes. This way you have a plug in the hole and not just a covering on the inside. By pinging the holes inward with a hammer allows you to fill in the indentations with body puddy before painting and you won't sand off any of the sealer that oozed out.

A man 40 miles from me is in the business and he uses phosphoric acid and they come out clean.

I have used the quart can of sealer from our local Napa store and had good luck with it after that man cleaned my tank.

I wouldn't recommend a radiator shop. I took one there one time and one time only and the soup he cooked it in didn't even take the paint off the outside of the tank.
 
My 1979 Chevy C-20 sprung a leak on one of the fuel tanks. It happened when gas was $4/gallon and I filled the tank then drove 5 miles home. I have been too lazy to mess with it since the other tank is good. I know what happened: I do not drive it much and I had less than 1/4 tank in it for a LONG time. Water/condensation took it out. Would a quart of tank sealer seal up a 21 gallon saddle tank?

Charles
 

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