Mark,
Most shops that do engine rebuilds, etc have the facilities to boil out a
tank. Just make sure that you examine the inside of the tank when you get
it back to see that they got all the old coating and stuff out. I had to go
through a couple iterations a few years ago when I had my tanks done. The
older the tank, the easier it is to clean it out. If your tanks are
original, one iteration should do it. I used a coating that Eastwood sells.
to prepare the tank, you have to put shot pellets in it and agitate to get
the shot to break off any remaining coating/flakes, etc. Securing a tank
inside of a clothes drier and running for an hour or so might be a neat way
to automate this. I did it the hard way. After that, do a final cleaning
with acetone and pour in Eastwood's stuff. It's white so it's easy to see
what's coated and what's not. Doing the inside of the crossover pipe sounds
like a good idea to me too.
Good luck..
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Will Seay - B382001570
----- Original Message -----
From: <CoolVT@aol.com>
To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 3:44 PM
Subject: The car that was driving me crazy
I wrote a few weeks back on my Tiger that was acting up.
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I finally had time today to get it on the lift and for the first time I
found flakes in the transparent fuel filter that I have between the tanks
and
the pump. So, I am going under the assumption that this was causing the
problem.
Now the questions are: in little ole Vermont there won't be the choices of
shops to fool with tanks like there is on the left coast. Would a radiator
shop be someone to visit if I can't find a tank shop?
Next, after the interior is cleaned should it be coated with something or
left bare? If coated...use what?
Anything else needed with the tanks? Should the metal 1 1/2" crossover
lines also be cleaned and coated with the tanks?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Mark L.
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