Fuel tank repair: Day 5 --- tank sealer

Next process was the coating of the tank inside using the tank sealer.

At first I opened the can and mixed the sealer well. The viscosity of the sealer was lower than I expected.

I poured the sealer into the tank carefully to prevent spilling it and closed the inlet of the tank with duct tapes.

After this, with imaging the movement of the sealer inside the tank, I held the tank, turned over, swung around, or jumped in order to spread the sealer completely inside the tank.

(There was no picture that I was dancing with the tank because my both hands were occupied.☺︎)

In 30 ~ 40 minutes my breath became rough and I stopped dancing. I opened the inlet of the tank and returned the sealer to the can.

Surprisingly, the sealer used to coat the inside of the tank was only 1/5 of the full quantity. I remembered that on the label they said the quantity was enough to repair 100L tank. It seemed 4 more tanks could be repaired if remained sealer wouldn’t be hardened. (But I didn’t have rusty tanks anymore.☺︎)

The inside of the tank was like this.

It looked that the inside of the tank was nicely coated by the sealer.

The instruction said “to dry the inside at least for 24 hours, preferably for 4 days after coating”. So, I kept the tank with this condition to dry the inside until next week.

Before starting the repair of the tank I had lots of concerns, such as the removal of the tank from the body, the cleaning and the rust removal, making holes on tank by rust removal and so on. However, in the reality, it went well although it took time.

It was much cheaper than the replacement with a new tank. Moreover, it was good for me that I could use the original parts of my Alfa.

I spent more than half of my summer holiday on this repair. However, it was really good for me that I could complete the rust removal of the fuel tank, which was my homework for summer holiday. ☺︎☺︎☺︎☺︎☺︎

(My original blog was written on 18th Aug. 2008)

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