Stupie got a gas tank for Xmas, Well,  I got the tank a year Ago,  and I'm installing it this xmas season.    All your talk about the reliability of JP weld and gas vapors worked.   This is a previously owned gas tank that went in a fuel injected stuperbeetle.   IS it common practic to wash out the tank with water?  Will washing with water make it rust more?  Or should I just vacuum the rust the best I can?.

good stuff Zen,    info said ,  Yes to water hosing the the tank.  Then it went on about buying acid and things.   I'm thinking that if I fill it with waste oil that would stop the rust for a while,  Coat the tank with oil.  then fill it with gas.  I would not notice the oil smoke,     SC

If you get the loose rust out and wash it out with acid, you are almost back to a new tank (yeah, you have to buy the acid, but it's cheap).  Sloshing oil around in it will keep it rusting until you can get gas in it.  After that, you're not protected . . . but it'll take a while for the rust to come back enough to cause a problem.  It beats leaving rust in it any day of the week . . . but coating it would fix the rust once and for all.  

SInce I had all that expensive 4 dollar gas in my wrecked Subaru.  I went out and got some clear hose,    to syphin it out.   What was wierd was that the back hatch was up when I was trying to get the suction going and then it fell down hard on my head.  Jimminy crickets that hurt. WHile typing now,  I reached up there to check the damage.  I'm leaking transmission fluid I think.  Owe.  My Sube is mad at me  

So While I waited for 5 gallons to squezze thru a 1/4 inch hose.  I looked at why the ignitons fuse blows when I signal right turns.  Left turns blink no problems.  I took the light lenses off  and pulled the bulbs for fun.  Poof  fuse gone.  Stick in new fuse,  Put bulbs and lenses back in.   SOmetimes a good knock in the head is what a guy needs to figure out Vw's.  

 I took the steering wheel off and pulled out the signal blinker levers switch thing.  Sweet,  The steering wheel had rubbed thru wires  so I got our my shoe box of duct tape,  After deciding that the white duct tape is best for blinker wires,  I taped it,  Yahoo.  Blinkers on bothe sides,

Back to the new gas tank,  Poured in new gas,  Found out I did not tighten all the hose well,  gas all in the spare tire well.  
Stupie no start,  I'm charging the battery.  SC

Nothing makes a post rock better than Blood.  My loving wife called me a name and made go to the 24 hr med place,  they glued my head back together  SC

Big morning for me,  Stupie started up for the New Year.   Maybe that is good Karma,  SC

Or maybe it was the blood offering you gave him?
Happy new year,
KC.

Thanks for the great idea with the blower. I've been soaking my 30 PICT-1 carburetor in cleaning solvent and I need to wash it out with water and blow it out with compressed air. Although not particularly elegant, a leaf blower will do the trick. Unfortunately I don't have a compressor. Maybe someday.

I have known of people being killed that way.  I myself had a car fall off of some jackstands while i was under it many years ago.  scary stuff.  
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