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Fuel tank repair: Day 1 --- new mission started!  

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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