So it looks like just buying a tank isn't really an option. Any decent condition older models of tank seems to have fallen off the face of the earth (or cost more than the bike) so it looks like I might just have to repair this one. :icon_razz:
The PO said it had a hole, but he patched it with "military steel" and then sealed the inside (great job...obviously).
To start off, here's the outside where he patched it. Not sure if just his patch is peeling off, or just the paint on top of the patch.
(http://i.imgur.com/EVVgI.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/yW9bC.jpg)
Here's some shots of what I'm seeing on the inside.
Call me crazy but it seriously looks like his sealant failed...terribly...and is now peeling off the walls and ceiling. And it's probably the cause of the clogged jet when I bought the thing.
(http://i.imgur.com/dmqZU.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Sk4zO.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Mh5sn.jpg)
Reached in with some wire and snagged a piece hanging from the top of the tank, feels like really thin paper.
(http://i.imgur.com/b6S9i.jpg)
So that's what I'm faced with...I've been looking around and there seem to be some decent patch kits out there, does this seem like a tank worth saving?
Was thinking maybe some of that acid for eating rust could eat off all that garbage in there so I can re-do it.
Just looking to hear some opinions of the older and wiser before wasting any money on this.
Appreciate it,
-Wright
Dont use it....its wayyy tooo corroded . The metal under the sealant also looks corroded. Get a tank for under a hundred bucks and be sure you wont have a problem.
Correct, gsprodigy. That dude is DOA,
Cool.
Buddha.
Crap...well, back to watching and waiting I guess. :icon_confused:
Thanks,
-Wright
BTW taht is a POR15 coating, to remove it, you first rinse it with gasoline, then with ~1 gal of acetone, then with 1 gal of paint stripper, then you find a nice big un detonated H bomb and install it inside and detonate it, it will destroy that coating along with the rest of the world. Then we will get a new world, where there will be a rust free GS tank we will use.
POR15 is a good product, but its designers happily pass off the rest of their garbage product line off to us. Those things do not work, their instructions say so right there in the box.
First is this - after treating the tank with the blue thing (metal ready), rinse it off and dry it. OK have you tried to dry a tank ... especially one that retains about a quart of water. Yea ... OK then begins lie number 2, if the metal flash rusts its is alright - WTF, what is the difference between rust and flash rust, and better yet, if flash rust is OK, why even use the blue liquid.
Then the best of all, slosh it inside the tank and drain it into a container and discard it. WTF you want to charge us $50 a qt and then have us dump 3/4 of it after doing 1 tank. That is assuming you can even come close to draining it. Great product, just hope that whoever did the POR15 on yoru tank never got even 1 poor spot, it will peel, rust and blow a hole there, absolutely.
Cool.
Buddha.
Yuck. I wouldn't use it. I'd hold out for something to come up on Ebay or you could try searchtempest.com to broad search craigslist & maybe get someone who'd ship. Good luck.
Quote from: cbrfxr67 on June 07, 2011, 02:16:37 PM
Yuck. I wouldn't use it. I'd hold out for something to come up on Ebay or you could try searchtempest.com to broad search craigslist & maybe get someone who'd ship. Good luck.
Totally forgot about trying craigsist! Heh, run across a few posts about people wanting to trade for a tank lol, how are these things so rare! :2guns:
-Wright
Hm... you'll probably laugh, but some of the guys I know used to repair their tanks (in the old days, before internet, electrolysis, and eBay) like this:
1. Fill the rusted tank with gravel (the smaller the pieces the better) and seal the cap hole
2. Wrap the tank in a blanket or something (to preserve the paint finish)
3. Put it in a concrete mixer (a small one, not the truck :icon_mrgreen:)
4. Let it tumble for a while (you can do this without the mixer just by your hands, but you have to be one bad m/fckr to do it properly)
5. Empty the tank, clean it with gasoline or something
6. Fill it with a liter or so of tank sealant (a local shipyard is near by, so no problem there), and stir it up evenly
7. If there's no tank sealant anywhere to get, an epoxy resin will (have to) do
A newer tank will work on your bike.Just gotta make some brackets for the grommets that hold the tail plastics.I have an 89 with an 04 tank.
Quote from: Shepa on June 07, 2011, 02:59:21 PM
3. Put it in a concrete mixer (a small one, not the truck :icon_mrgreen:)
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