- 1. re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 06:05:49 GMT
- The *only* effective way to clean the interior of a gas tank is to just climb in & go to work. Few people will do that, though. I think that for the most part (in the U.S.), fuel tanks are simply tak
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- 2. re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 18:48:57 GMT
- Cleaning the interior of the tank with muriatic acid may have contributed to the returning rust. You must completely neutralize muriatic acid, or it will begin a lifetime project of rusting away what
- /html/triumphs/2000-06/msg00026.html (7,758 bytes)
- 3. Re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 18:37:29 -0500
- Good point. Muriatic Acid will not be neutralized by the lacquer thinner. It does however completely neutralized with water. I followed a simple regimen, used the MA, flushed with lots of water, fill
- /html/triumphs/2000-06/msg00042.html (9,298 bytes)
- 4. Re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:48:01 -0700
- Thanks for pointing that out. I forgot to add that between the acid rinse and the lacquer thinner, I rinsed it out a couple of times with a baking soda solution to neutralize the acid. Then, the lacq
- /html/triumphs/2000-06/msg00069.html (8,901 bytes)
- 5. RE: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:39:28 -0500
- regimen, Please permit me a small but potentially important correction - water does not in any way "neutralize" muriatic (hydrochloric) acid. At best, water dilutes the acid--and the more water and t
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- 6. Re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:49:25 -0400charset="Windows-1252"
- FWIW, I was looking in the POR-15 catalog and saw this: Auto Fuel Tank Repair Kit. Fuel Tank Repair is more than just pouring a quart of sealer and sloshing it around. If gum, varnish, sludge, or fue
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- 7. Re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 12:41:53 -0400
- Muriatic acid is simply an industrial grade of hydrochloric acid, versus reagent grade. It is an excellent steel cleaner, but treacherous to use on cars. IF it seeps into seams, you will never get it
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- 8. Re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2000 16:05:49 -0700
- It's also a specific concentration (strength) of HCl. I dont recall the numbers offhand, but it's considerably weaker than the usual reagent dilution. Randall
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- 9. Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:43:40 +0200charset="iso-8859-1"
- Hello all Guru, I have 2 questions. First off all, I need to clean the inside of my TR6 fuel tank, How to proceed ? The inside of the tank is dirty with little dot of rust. The second one: is it poss
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- 10. Re: Cleaning Fuel Tank (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 19:42:18 -0700
- Hey Francis, I recently redid my fuel tank for my 1960 TR-3A. For the inside, I blocked off the openings and poured in several rinses of muriatic acid (wear proper safety protection). After that, I f
- /html/triumphs/2000-05/msg01550.html (8,217 bytes)
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