Re: Need advice on cleaning out my gas tank

Posted by Tim On 2017/6/7 8:53:45

Thanks for the replies and the helpful advice. Here's what I've done. I continued to blow air, from my compressor, into all the openings and from different angles. I also had the shop vac nozzle stuck in the filler neck as I was blowing air in. I continued this until there was no more, or very little, brown dust blowing out. Then I put a short piece of chain into the tank and swished it around, concentrating on scraping the top clean by turning the tank upside down as I swished it around. Then I went back to blowing air in again. Then I mixed up a strong solution of a Melaleuca product called "Tub & Tile". It's a citrus based cleaner that cleans rust stains from sinks and tubs. At full undiluted strength you can soak a dirty old penny in this stuff for a while and it will come out looking shiny like new, so I figured it should work to clean up what ever rust dust was left in the tank. After flushing it out several times, it now looks really good. It isn't bare metal, but it's a gray color, similar to the picture in the above posting. I can see the pickup tube and it also is gray with no rust. I may have gotten very lucky here. I've decided to go ahead and use the tank as is, and add an inline filter. At least until new replacements are once again available from Kanter. Thanks again guys for the replies. Nice talking with you Howard, take care. I'll post again with an update after I get back from the Good Guys car show in Des Moines Iowa at the end of the month. That's going to be about an 800 mile round trip.

Tim