Petrol tank. Had a right to and fro over this as to whether to try to save it. At the beginning I was very cocky about it and just decided i'd get a new one when the time came so didn't take too much care over storing it. Fast forward years and the reassembly is starting to cost the earth so I had a think about saving it.
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Didn't look terrible. Had a bit of a scratch and scrape at it and could see some shiny metal showing through in a couple of places. What about inside though?
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Maybe not the end of the world? The cost of the new ones and hearing the stories of how they never fit anyway made me decide to throw a drop of Bilt Hamber deox c in. I thought if that would get rid of the rust on the inside I could face tackling the outside. And it worked a treat. I only used a couple of pints and tilted the tank to have an experiment in one corner but it was good. So I mixed up enough deox to fill the tank about an inch deep thinking I would let it sit for 24 hrs then tip it to one side and repeat going round the whole thing doing each internal surface. Brilliant plan until I came back next morning to adjust and found there must be a leak somewhere between the botton of the tank and that cradle thing that it's partly welded to. So the tank is a goner and I now have a very, very clean stripe of garage floor and drive just outside where it tried to drain away. Managed to salvage most of the deox though and the new tank is here. And it doesn't fit.
