how can i get the rust out of my gas tank? it clogs my fuel filter so often that i cant drive it please help!!!
Best way is to drop the tank out. Then flush it real good with water. Then put in a couple of gallons of soapy water along with a big piece of chain. Shake it in every direction you can so the chain will knock all the loose rust off. Then keep flushing it until its clean. Then set it out in the sun to dry or better yet, hook a hair drier up to the large hole. You can buy kits from Eastwood and JC whitney to coat the inside to prevent further rust. If your car sits alot, keep the tank full
i like the chain idea. i use thumb size rocks. they are easy to get out. i did the rock thing to a harley tank. after putting the rocks in i wraped the tank in a blanket and put it in the dryer. wife was not happy but the results were great. the mav. tank is a little large for the dryer but the rock thing will work...frank...:bananaman L.T.N.G.
Take your tank out, fill it full of molassas, let it ferment a week or so, (this part stinks) then dump it out, you won't find a trace of rust in there.
My neighbor was having the same issues with his 66 Barracuda, he cleaned out the tank and then put in some rust prevention sealer. It worked for about 2 years then the stuff started plealing off and clogging his fuel filter. It was so bad that he kept an extra fuel filter in the car. Reciently he purchased a new gas tank it was about $200
If it has fermented for awhile it isn't too bad to get out, but not super fun either, I have done it on motorcycle tanks, they go in rusty as all hell and come out spotless. Never done it on a car tank but same idea. Only thing I noticed on my bike tanks it that it eats decals when I submerged the tank (you could just fill the inside instead) not that there are any decals on car gas tanks.
??????????? 71Gold?????? You put a Harley tank in the dryer, as in the clothes dryer? Are you referring to one that has held gas in the past? Maybe I am just a paranoid nervous whimp but you won't catch me putting anything that has been a container for gas in a dryer inside my house. Maybe yours is on the porch or even under a shed somewhere. That sounds like a recipe for disaster. I wouldn't think it would be good for the finish/smoothness of the tank either. Eastwood and many other manufacturers make cleaning and sealing products for restoring gas tanks. Try their site on the internet, I don't know the address, just look up Eastwood restoration products. JMO- Seth
yep! i have done this more than once. i built show harleys for 29 years and this was the norm for cleanlng a tank. i do the rock and roll to etch the inside so the coating has something to stick to. if you don't it will peel like slowcomet's neighbor's did. you would think if the peelings were stopping up his filters then he must not have a sock on his fuel sending unit pickup tube...frank...:bananaman :bananaman L.T.N.G.
I had the same problem about 10 years ago. Got one of those kits (Por-15?) that has a cleaner and a coating that you slosh around in the tank. Dries hard as a rock. Haven't had any problems since. Spilled some on the driveway and after 10 years it's still there. By the way, my tank had rust because the zinc coating inside got scratched. When I took the tank out I found some "debris" inside; 2 foot-long sticks, a candy bar wrapper, a rock about the size of my fist, and a kitchen paring knife! Damn kids!
