<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Elton--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Aluminum tanks will not rust but they can corrode from the inside as a result of water that accumulates either from condensation or from having been absorbed by ethanol fuel.  And unlike external rust which you can easily see examining the interior condition of a tank must be done from the inside.  There are things that can be done:  Draining the tank periodically; keeping the tank either as full as possible if you run your car year-round or totally empty if off the road during winter; avoiding the use of ethanol fuel (not easily done), and; periodically using an additive that allows the water to mix with the fuel and be burned off.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">All that said I would opt for aluminum if I had to replace the tank in my 100.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 9:28 PM Elton S <<a href="mailto:eps2660@gmail.com">eps2660@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I went with an aluminum tank. If you don't care about originality, no worries about rust from the outside or inside.<div>Elton </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 4:44 PM Ray Juncal via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr">So brake and fuel lines are in. Time for the gas tank. I have two pretty nice looking tanks I've had stashed for this occasion. Well they were pretty nice until I started scraping the undercoat off and found the rust termites. I'm looking for a new tank and leaning toward the Moss steel one. Advise,warnings and suggestions please.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:180689e581b86c0f8471" style="max-width: 800px;"><br><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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