I’ve started the new mission that the repair of rust fuel tank.
The replacement of the rear bearing at the rear axle was still on the way, however, during summer holiday I could secure a longer time, and the hot climate would be good for the chemical reaction of the rust remover and drying the inside of the tank. Therefore, I wanted to repair the fuel tank in summer holiday.
The target of the 1st day was to remove the fuel tank from a car and to put the cleaner “MARINE CLEAN” into the tank.
At first, as a preparation for the tank removal, I removed the equipment in the trunk room, such as the electric fuel pump, battery, which may interfere with the work.
Next I removed the fuel sending unit and extracted the gasoline inside the tank with hand pump. Considerable amount of rusty objects came out together with the gasoline.
After extracting the gasoline I started to remove the fuel tank.
Firstly I removed the screws at the flange of the tank. Some screws were covered by the sealer and not able to be loosened by a screwdriver. I used a vice pliers to turn them.
Even removing all screws, the tank was still sticking on the trunk floor panel by sealer. So, I pushed up the tank using a floor jack. Then, the tank was separated from the floor.
While doing this, I was worried that a tank would be punched at the bottom by pushing the tank with a jack, but it was okay.
After this, I tried to remove the tank from the trunk room and it took more than half an hour.
At the beginning I tried to take out from the top. I did lots of trials changing the angle, however, I couldn’t. Then, I thought that the tank could be dropped down. I did several trials overturning the tank, and succeeded in dropping the tank down on the ground. It was a very acrobatic movement, like a Rubik Cube!!!
Finally, I put the MARINE CLEAN into the removed tank. They say MARINE CLEAN can remove the sludge and gum in a tank. In order to cover the tank, I cut the pipe of the old fuel sending unit and crushed it. (It was useless because it did not work properly due to rust.)
I put the 1 liter of MARINE CLEAN and 1 liter of boiled water in the tank, and had to leave it more than 24 hours. They said that the hotter condition I heard that a hotter condition would give better results, so I would leave the tank under the scorching sun tomorrow.
I had a lot of sweat through today’s work in very hot climate and reduced my weight more than 1 kg. ☺︎
So far, the work has been doing well as planned. It was very unusual.
I had a good feeling this time♪♪♪
(My original blog was written on 11th Aug. 2008)
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