Gas Tank Interior Coating
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Now youall can call me oldfashioned but i just dont get it. i wanta take off my old tank and put it back on? two bolts two fuel lines one electrical connector call a part store and get a side tank on an 83 f250 for $95 or rear tank for $126 for example. undercoat the top and where the straps go get 20 or more years outa it. at my age you could say thats a lifetime warrenty. heck even old mom got a chuckle out of this.
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I was unaware of the age of your truck. in my time zone i cant get any cross referances from buddies till tues.. i did find a site that finds aftermarket parts but i have to waite till tues am. in the words of the governer of cal. "ill be back".
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I did find a gastank. warrenty and all. actually several tanks for that truck of yours all the same. $135 each pressure checked every one including delivery.if you could e me i'd forward his po# to you. i got it online.
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Here's the latest. I was about to take my tank to be hot-tanked when I decided I had nothing to loose by going over to the junkyard and taking a look at the gas tank out of another 72 just like mine that I've been pulling parts off all summer. Lo and behold the tank is brand new clean on the inside. I had assumed that it would be rusted but it didn't have a speck of rust on the inside. $55 and an hour later my 72 is back on the road. Its good to be lucky sometimes.
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Is there any cleaning, derusting method that can be done while the tank is still in the machine? Removing and reinstalling a tank that has been in place for 32 years is not my idea of fun. So far, a clear glass fuel filter is not showing any trash but that's sorta like waiting for a shoe to drop.
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From: Four Oaks, NC
If you could clean it without removing it from the truck, how would you get all the crud out? You need to have it out so you can tilt it and pour everything out whenever you need to. I poured some purple pour into mine and a handful of gravel, and then with my son on one end of the tank and me on the other, we just shook it and rocked it back and forth for a while. You wouldn't believe all the nasty crap that came out.
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Hey JimR, removing and replacing a tank isn't hard. The tank isn't all that heavy either. Like I said, it only took me about an hour to remove mine and replace it with the one I bought from the salvage yard. I think the hard part would be cleaning it. That's why I was gonna pay $100 to have it hot-tanked. The radiator shop guy guarangeed me that it would be shiny clean on the inside when he was done with it. He said I'd have to leave it with him for a couple days so he could soak it in his solution for that long.
My neighbor is a chemist and he said that Hydrochloric acid is what is used to remove rust. You can buy it from a hardware store and it's called Naval Jelly. It's highly corosive and can burn a hole in you if you're not careful. You'd have to dump it in your tank and swish it all around until you got all the rust off. Then you neutralize it with baking soda (I think?) And then you'd still have to get it out of there. The only way to do it without removing the tank from the truck would be to vacuum it out somehow. I guess you'd need a shop vac. Not impossible I guess.
My neighbor is a chemist and he said that Hydrochloric acid is what is used to remove rust. You can buy it from a hardware store and it's called Naval Jelly. It's highly corosive and can burn a hole in you if you're not careful. You'd have to dump it in your tank and swish it all around until you got all the rust off. Then you neutralize it with baking soda (I think?) And then you'd still have to get it out of there. The only way to do it without removing the tank from the truck would be to vacuum it out somehow. I guess you'd need a shop vac. Not impossible I guess.
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