Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:26:12 -0800
Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Gas tank out. How to remove debris from tank? (searched)
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Hi Doug.
I have no idea how old tank is. Inside looks grey with speckles.
(speckles may possibly have been what I thought was debris)
I pulled it last night to do the hose/seal thing and because I'm
installing long coolant lines for my engine conversion. The tank is
outside on the bench now and there is surface rust (earlier post
warning other air cooled owners) on area where warm air tube runs
over tank
Pics:
http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/expansiontank
There is also surface rust on perimeter flange of tank.
This morning I checked tank in better light. To my uneducated eye, I
see what look like,2 "wet spots" on bottom of tank. I understand this
*may* be the sign of a leak beginning.
*sigh* .... maybe it's time for a new one. I hope I can find one
locally and affordably. I really don't want to wait on it as I want to
get this conversion moving.
If you have any more helpful opinions on replace or keep the tank,
please advise. I can post more pics easily.
Thanks
Neil.
On 2/21/08, Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Neil,
>
> You don't say how old the tank is --- or the condition inside as well as on
> the top where they rust out with depressing regularity. Might be time for a
> new one --- as well as replacing all those little hoses etc. All that crap
> in the tank itself is going to degrade your pump and your injectors and your
> fuel pressure regulator and cause you trouble on the road. I recently
> replaced my gas tank -- I'd known it was wonky for 8 years --- in that time
> I replaced 3 or 4 injectors, the regulator and I just replaced an 8 year old
> fuel pump. I should have just bitten the bullet 8 years ago and gotten the
> new gas tank. If you're going to go with some sort of repair be passionate
> about replacing your fuel filters on a very regulat basis --- and given the
> price of them --- replace the tank :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Doug
>
>
> On 2/21/08, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm prepping the gas tank for a top coat of some kind (bed liner maybe?)
> >
> > I can see some debris in the tank. I hesitate to flush it with water.
> >
> > Any tips on cleaning this debris out? I'll blow on the fuel outlet and
> > return steel lines and maybe a shopvac and/or a rag on a stick, will
> > get some of the debris out, but if there's a better way, I'm all
> > "ears"!
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Neil.
> >
> > --
> > Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
> >
> > http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
> > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://www.dougalcock.com
>
--
Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia - "Jaco"
http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/
