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Gas tank-clean or replace and posting pictures

Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 5:42 pm
by spiderman1
I am making progress with my 82 restore. My floor pans are 90% complete. I have two unrelated questions
1) I still dont know how to post pictures-I would love to post a few of the progress-It seems all the threads on this are old and I am wondering if anything has become easier. just curious!
2) I just pulled my gas tank and I do have a little rust on the lip that sits on the bottom of the trunk floor. What is the best way to determine if the tank should be clenaed and painted or replaced. If cleaned-what are the best oprions? I have read a little about sea foam?

Re: Gas tank-clean or replace and posting pictures

Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 6:04 pm
by SoFlaFiat
I use an app on my iPad called image size. Works great to get to photos below 700 x 500 pixels. Then save them to a photo hosting site and copy the image link into the body of your post.
I have been using photobucket for a long time but it crashes sometimes, like right now!! Grrr

Re: Gas tank-clean or replace and posting pictures

Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 6:20 pm
by RRoller123
They should owe me about a 15% share in the company for all those intros I do and the number of them (could be 1000's I think....over the past 4 years). BUT the damned thing IS slow and it does crash, especially when I am on AOL. (Don't ask why I am still on AOL, there is no answer other than inertia.)

Re: Gas tank-clean or replace and posting pictures

Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 9:35 pm
by narfire
RE: fuel tank. No harm in cleaning it out if it's not in the car.
here I have used a gas tank re-fresh kit bought at a jobber store ( Lordco) Think it was around $50-60 CDN. 3 part program, clean with water and I put small pebbles in the tank and swooshed it about for several cycles. Knocked some rust flakes out. After drying overnight I cleaned with a solution from the kit, basically acetone and let that dry. Added this gook and rolled the tank about for a while until I felt most of the gook was covering the inside. There are baffles in the tank so it might not get covered but better than it was before.
7-8 years later, no pin holes and all seems to be good...touch wood...
Chris