I am going to take the old tamk to a welding shop and have them fabricate a new one. Make it same as stock then I can take the boat tank out of the back.
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I am going to take the old tamk to a welding shop and have them fabricate a new one. Make it same as stock then I can take the boat tank out of the back.
yeah, I thought of that, but the welding shop estimated a full day's labor at a hundred an hour...
--Randy
Seems like alot of labor to build a box.
Well, cut the main body piece, roll it four times to the right shape, weld the seam, cut the baffles, weld them in, cut the end pieces, fold the lips, crimp them to the side pieces, weld them, cut the filler tube, sender, and pickup holes, weld a piece of tube for the filler inlet, weld a reinforcing ring for the sender, tap the screw holes, weld a drain plug bung to the bottom, fabricate a pickup tube (with screen), braze it in, test it and pray there's not a single bit of porosity in any of the welds because you had your best TIG welder do it,...
--Randy
sounds easy and straightforward to me. Now if you can outsource it you might be able to afford it.
Got the tank back today - apparantly they found time to work on it before they expected!
$100 for three pieces of brass and some soldering... Oh well, what do you do when you don't have any tools?
I picked up a can of underbody coating, with make it nice and non-shiny black before I stick it back in. Will have to wait, not doing any painting in this weather.
--Randy
Sounds like they got you all fixed up. Fast too!
When I cleaned and sealed my tank, I coated all the seams on the outside with POR first, then sprayed it with a couple cans of the spray-on bedliner from Auto Zone. Its not as heavily textured as the real stuff, but makes a nice outer coating.
I don't even have a wire brush to scrap the rust off, much less the tools it would take to really prep it... I'm just going to spray over the bare shiny areas they left so they don't rust before it gets painted properly.
--Randy
does anybody have some advice for a solid tank thats full of rust scale?
Dump in a pound of drywall screws, and shake it up and down and all around for an hour. Rinse and repeat as needed.
--Randy