[Tigers] Barely running - suddenly - input pls?

[Tony Somebody]

Ratchet strap the tanks to a concrete mixer, fill it with a good cutting
media, from small rocks, pieces of glass, shotgun pellets etc etc etc. plus or
cap the openings and turn on the mixer, it will cut all the stuff loose or use
a chemical strip. I'm sure some sulfuric acid, cut down from pure(I would have
to ask a friend who works with it often) to a % that would remove the old
lining, then nutralize the acid and coat with one of the products reccomended
by a person who has already installed the product and has positive feedback.
I  think most members have had an easy time of removing the old coating. IF it
wantd to
stay, perhaps the coated over it??????
Cheers,
TtT
 

--- On Sat, 8/7/10, Steven L. Finberg <w1gsl at MIT.EDU> wrote:


From: Steven L. Finberg <w1gsl at MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Barely running - suddenly - input pls?
To: "Sandy Ganz" <sganz at pacbell.net>
Cc: "Pointers" <gpointer at telusplanet.net>, tigers at autox.team.net
Date: Saturday, August 7, 2010, 12:24 AM


>     -There
were many black flakes in old pump. I suppose this is tank
coating. I presume
the inline fuel filter trapped any of this prior to
reaching the carb. Took
the (paper type) filter apart and there was a bit of
the stuff.

>      I need
>the car for an event tomorrow. What am I dealing with here??

The death throws of your gas tanks...  The black flakes will
eventually clog the exit point of the tanks.. where the
fuel line leaves the pipe between the left and right tank.

Blowing out the line will only clear it for a short time..
The exit point is the low spot and the flakes flow right
back to it..  Once it got bad,  blowing out the line would
last less than 5 miles...


First noticed this in my Alpines 20 years ago..
The only fix that held up was recoating the tank interor.
It was really hard to get all the old paint out.. It was well attached
and was sort of time release flaking...:-)

Good luck

Steve F

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