Back in the 60s a Brit friend lost fingers and an eye working on a Royal
Enfield tank that was supposed to be absolutely clean and had been sitting
on a shelf open for years. As my
New York Jewish buddies would say, "Don't never trust nobody!!"
In the past, I've cleaned out motorcycle tanks by filling them with a little
kerosene and about a pint of hex nuts and short lengths of chain, wrapping
them in foam and putting them into a cement mixer for about 8 hours. Then
line them with POR15 and give them to the painter.
There is a guy in Ontario, Canada who does motorcycle tanks as a business.
His procedure is to open them up along the seams with a cut off wheel under
water, clean them out by washing and scrubbing with various washing
chemicals ending with soap and water. He then fixes the dents, welds them
back together, lines them with POR15 and paints them. They are good pretty
much for life.
If I had a tractor wheel to use, I'd finish up by lining with POR15. The
tank should be good for life after that. At least for my life ;-)
Cheers!!
Jim
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Bill Masquelier <billmasq at
hotmail.com>wrote:
> I am here to tell you that the correct combination CAN be found- just as I
> was
> soldering a penny over a hole in a Jeep gas tank! Fortunately I had the
> tank
> almost full of water and it just went "POOF" but did scare the heck out of
> me!!
> BillM
>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:42:43 -0400
> > From: bjshov8 at tx.rr.com
> > To: spridgets at autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Gas Tank?
> >
> > This falls under the category of YMMV, but if you know about engines you
> know that gasoline vapors and oxygen will only combust when they are close
> the
> the proper mixture of one to the other. (Which of course is why carburetor
> tuning is so critical to an engine's performance.) So too much oxygen or
> not
> enough oxygen, and no combustion. That's not to say that you won't be the
> lucky person whose tank hits the mixture just right.
> >
> >
> > > I will not recommend this, but many years ago I have seen "old masters"
> weld
> > > gas tanks with an exhaust hose inserted into the tank from a running
> engine.
> > > The exhaust forced the gas fumes out of the tank. Really. DON'T TRY IT
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