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Hi all. 1973 Series III 88 petrol here. Has anyone taken on the project of removing and cleaning their gas tank? Is it a difficult job? I'm having continuing fuel issues despite new/clean carb, in-line filter, pump bowl, etc. and can only think that starting fresh with clean tank would be beneficial. I'd love to have any advice, suggestions, pitfalls to look out for, etc. Thanks!
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you could remove tank access panel under under passenger seat bottom and pull pickup tube to check screen for gunk...or pull sender and get a visual with a light. May save some labor on dropping the tank. -
Thank you! Good advice and I think I'm coming around to just emptying the old fuel and cleaning the tank without removing. I removed the panel and checked the pick-up tube yesterday. I didn't find any gunk on the tube, but I did find that the fine screen mesh at the bottom of that tube was pretty much useless, mostly detached and holes in the bottom. So going to replace that for sure.Comment
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I see this if a little old, however if there are those in the future interested in doing this, I have recently accomplished the feat..lol I used a kit from KBS(there are others) It's basically getting the old fuel tank as clean as possible and then lining with epoxy. I started my process with electrolysis(grounded the tank and dropped a steel bar with + charge in the middle of the tank, I used an old battery charger) to remove as much rust as possible. Then used a cleaner/degreaser, followed with zinc phosphate and then the epoxy. I'll see ifs I can upload a few pictures of the process.Comment
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not very pretty, had too much epoxy..Comment
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a few more.Attached FilesComment
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