[TR] MOSS Tank Sealer Removal - TR3A

[Rich White]

Didn't we have this discussion a few months ago?

I do not remember what the solution was. %^(

If I remeber correctly, the problem was that the coating did not like the
gasohol.



Bill,

Have you search the archives?

The URL is at the bottom of all the messages from this list.

Rich White St. Joseph, IL USA
'63 TR3B TCF587L
That ain't a scrap pile, that is my car!




> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:33:47 -0800
> From: wsb1960tr3a at att.net
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] MOSS Tank Sealer Removal - TR3A
>
> 12 years ago I slushed my TR3A gas tank with the white tank coating that
> MOSS sells. Before sloshing, I derusted the tank with muriatic acid, then
> flushed out with water/baking soda to neutralize the acid, and then rinsed
> that with lacquer thinner so it was bright, clean and shiny. Now twelve
years
> later the coating is coming off in various locations and it plugged the
fuel
> line and left my wife stranded on a country road in the dark. Not happy. I
> want to get the MOSS sealer out and coat it with a coating by KBS. I used
it
> on my Mercedes tank and the stuff is awesome.
> http://www.kbs-coatings.com/Auto-Fuel-Tank-Sealer-Kit_p_34.html
> Anyway, I tried lacquer thinner and that didn't do anything to the
> sealer. I tried muriatic acid and it discolored the coating and kind of
made
> it bubble/wrinkle up in places. I don't want to try any more acid because I
> think that it might eat through the tank somewhere. Does anyone know how
> to get the stuff out of the tank? I might try a radiator shop to see if
> their boil-out tank will take it out. It took out the factory coating in my
> Mercedes. Likewise, Peter Arakelian! Tell MOSS that your tank sealer
> doesn't cut it and you should sell KBS coatings instead. Anyone on the
> list have a spare TR3A fuel tank that they would sell for a reasonable
price?
> Bill in Tehachapi