old fuel tank clean out fix

[jim zaccone]

I spent days cleaning out rust and corrosion in an old fuel tank using a mixture of muratic acid and water 50/50 mix and still no results until I went with just plain CLR thats right calcium lime rust remover it works great just like new again try it....jim in minnesota.

zaccone5@hotmail.com

[Wheelin_Ypsi]

Is this the stuff you buy in grocery stores, or other store? I have a Cub Cadet with a rusted gas tank I would like to fix. It has a hole about the size of a dollor bill. I would like to do some sheet metal work and fix it up. Don't have $ to buy a used one, but lots of time for hammering out some repair panels. I could use this to clean up the rust.

[falstaff]

I've soaked tanks in Coke (or Pepsi) for a few days and that always got my rust out. I also put in some small rocks and sloshed them around to break off any big chunks. I once even soaked a stuck lower unit off of an old Firestone (Scott Atwater) outboard in Coke for a few days and it freed it up....

[falstaff]

A week ago I had to clean a tank out and I used my solvent tank and a bunch of nuts/bolts out of my spare nut/bolt drawer. After a good shaking it came clean.

[Stan D]

I used to work at a motorcycle shop. It was there I found a product for this issue. It's called Kreem. It is a system that prepares a tank(cleans), then lines it. I'm not a big fan of the lining part, but the cleaner works great. I think it's sulfuric acid, and it can be bought without the lining part. The reason I don't like the lining part is that unless you do it exactly correctly, it will flake off.