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Re: coating the inside of my gas tank ?


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Posted by John B. on December 13, 2008 at 07:04:50 from (38.114.64.205):

In Reply to: coating the inside of my gas tank ? posted by 1965lonewolf on December 08, 2008 at 16:38:55:

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.


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