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Re: gastank gum

To: tedgantz <tgantz@fuse.net>
Subject: Re: gastank gum
From: Curtis Cook <ccook@admin.coloradocollege.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 08:59:48 -0700 (MST)
I punted that one -- new tank from NTG.  It's only money.  Underneath
that stuff I found rust anyway.  But mine's a  TF.  The TA may not be so
easy.  -Curtis

On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, tedgantz wrote:

> Does anyone have a suggestion for getting a large build up of varnish
> out of a TA gas tank.
> My tank sat with gas in it for twenty years before I bought the car. I
> then discovered a hard sediment coated the inside of the tank. Filling
> the tank with laquor thinner for a week as turned the hard coating into
> a rubbery consistency, about 1/4 inch thick which clings to the walls of
> the tank. Since the tank has at least two baffles in it there is no
> access to most of the tank interior. Only completely disolving the gum
> with some solvent would seem the only way to remove it.  The material
> would come out with a power washer except the baffles in the tank block
> access. The laquor thinner may eventualy disolve it if left for several
> months.
> Does anyone have a suggestion?
> Ted
> 
> 


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