Vinegar in the gas tank

[Tamara]

Cool - I never knew you could even buy WD40 in anything but a spray can.

Hubby buys it in the gallon cans. I think he gets it at Home Depot.

[Tamara]

Did you put any gravel inside or just fill it with vinegar? Curious, as I'm probably going to go this route as it seems safer than the electrolysis method. Things have a way of going wrong around me.

I just filled it with vinegar and then every few hours agitated it. Not only did it get rid of the rust, agitating the tank gave me a great upper body workout .

[Steve]

Cool - I never knew you could even buy WD40 in anything but a spray can.

Hubby buys it in the gallon cans. I think he gets it at Home Depot.

Yep, click HERE.

Also available in a 5 or 55 gallon drum at Lowe's and NAPA.

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[BentRod]

I just filled it with vinegar and then every few hours agitated it. Not only did it get rid of the rust, agitating the tank gave me a great upper body workout .

Wait until you coat the inside in epoxy... You are going to coat the inside aren't you?

[Tamara]

Wait until you coat the inside in epoxy... You are going to coat the inside aren't you?

I'm on the fence about coating it. I've been reading too many negative articles about the effectiveness of coating.

[azr]

If the rust is pretty well gone, and the tank does not flash rust before you fill it with gasoline, you don't really need to coat it but you could put an inline gas filter in place for a few month (or forever for that matter) just to be sure nothing makes it into the carbs. Job well done it sounds like.

[Tamara]

If the rust is pretty well gone, and the tank does not flash rust before you fill it with gasoline, you don't really need to coat it but you could put an inline gas filter in place for a few month (or forever for that matter) just to be sure nothing makes it into the carbs. Job well done it sounds like.

Knock on wood, no flash rust so far when I checked it this morning. If all goes according to plan, my friend is going to help me pull the carbs, clean them and then we'll put the tank on and fill 'er up and see what happens.

I've already got the inline filter in place . Since the tank and seat are off, I've been going through the wiring and replaced a few corroded connectors.