[Healeys] 100 gas tank

[Warthodson at aol.com]

The tank was new. Unfortunately, he has so far been unable to determine  
where he bought it. The very fine red powder appears to be rust, although it is  
hard to be sure. It is extremely fine, like talcum powder & slightly  magnetic, 
so we think it is rust. I would expect any coating inside the tank to  come 
off in larger flakes, but I don't really know for sure.
Gary Hodson
 
 
In a message dated 4/27/2008 9:01:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
mayorrichard at hotmail.com writes:

Gary,  Was your gas tank brand new, or a good original tank?  Because, this  
sounds like a similar situation that I had some years back. I resurrected a  
1954 Jaguar MK 7 and began driving it. It had sat for many many years. The  
gasoline that we were then getting at the pump was "oxygenated", which meant  
that it had about 10% ethanal. This was all very new to we car guys (with old  
cars) and odd things started happening. In my case it turned out the the  
ethanol in the gas broke down the glaze, or whatever you call it, that was  coating 
the inside of my tanks (MK 7s have a tank on each side). It looked  like a 
very fine rust and it kept plugging my fuel filters on a regular  basis. 
Eventually it all dissolved off of the inside of my tanks and  everything then worked 
fine.   Richard Mayor



> From:  Warthodson at aol.com
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:18:22 -0400
> To:  healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] 100 gas tank
>  
> This weekend we discovered the float bowls on a friend's BN1 filled  with 
> approx. 1/2" of very fine rust, high enough to be blocking the  passage 
into the 
> carbs. The car was restored 7 years ago & the  gas tank was replaced at 
that 
> time. Upon examination, the inside  surface of the tank was covered with 
rust. 
> He is considering an  aluminum replacement tank & is interested in knowing 
> which  suppliers have tanks the fit well, have the correct fuel line 
fitting & if  
> there are any other issues he should know about. 
>  Thanks,
> Gary Hodson
> 
> 
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