- 1. gastank gum (score: 1)
- Author: tedgantz <tgantz@fuse.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 16:59:19 -0500
- 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 coat
- /html/mg-t/2000-01/msg00020.html (7,328 bytes)
- 2. Re: gastank gum (score: 1)
- Author: Arnold Molloy <a.j.molloy@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:11:50 -0500
- Hi Ted, I had much the same problem with a TD tank. I used an extension mirror through the sending unit hole and discovered that there was a channel running the full width of the bottom of the tank .
- /html/mg-t/2000-01/msg00021.html (7,539 bytes)
- 3. Re: gastank gum (score: 1)
- Author: Kevin & Deana Brown <MGTRAutoXr@sprintmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 19:11:25 -0600
- I guess that I was lucky that even though my TF 1500 sat for 25 years, the PO had apparently drained the gas tank (as well as the carbs, radiator, block, etc.). When I looked in the gas tank, it was
- /html/mg-t/2000-01/msg00022.html (7,935 bytes)
- 4. Re: gastank gum (score: 1)
- Author: Arnold Molloy <a.j.molloy@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 23:58:09 -0500
- Hi Ted, I believe you might have better luck using an 1/8" or a 3/16" rod in that 1/4" hole.............. Arnie Molloy
- /html/mg-t/2000-01/msg00023.html (6,807 bytes)
- 5. Re: gastank gum (score: 1)
- Author: 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
- /html/mg-t/2000-01/msg00026.html (7,841 bytes)
- 6. Re: gastank gum (score: 1)
- Author: Jerry Felper <felperg@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:22:34 -0800
- I also had the same problem and took the tank to a chemical stripper. It took a week of soaking. Then I used an aircraft sloching compond. Jerry
- /html/mg-t/2000-01/msg00027.html (8,142 bytes)
- 7. Re: gastank gum (score: 1)
- Author: "Charles F. Inman" <floydinman@compuserve.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:37:55 -0700
- Like Jerry, I took the tank from my YB to a radiator shop where they soaked it in a chemical bath, sloshed it with a sealant and a final coating then painted it for me. Cost: about $75.00 Floyd Inman
- /html/mg-t/2000-01/msg00028.html (8,950 bytes)
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