[Healeys] steel vs. aluminium petrol tank

richard mayor mayorrichard at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 21 15:09:55 MST 2008


Sounds like you had water in your tank. That's why you had rust.


> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:42:02 -0800> From: Kendall.Freese at Aerojet.com> To:
healeys at autox.team.net> Subject: Re: [Healeys] steel vs. aluminium petrol
tank> > Its fine to go with steel, but why will Jorge's last 50 years when my>
stock one flaked enough rust to give carburettor trouble 15 years from> new? A
common practice for all old tanks was to have "tern" coated> steel. Is that
what Jorge uses?> Ken Freese> 65 BJ8> > -------------------------> Still, the
best comment I got was "either will last another 50 years or> more.. the steel
will survive a rear end collision better than the> aluminum.> "> > Richard> >
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