[NoVa-Corvairs] Saturday Meeting

[Curtis Shimp]

Ron:

Some people clean and recoat the tanks themselves.  My neighbor was in
the restoring business.  He would flush out all the organic residue and
then rattle an old chain around inside to loosen up any rust.  Then he
would coat the inside with a purchased product.  I am not sure where he
got his coating material but Eastwood sell it.

Curt

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:31:29 -0400 rvtum at aol.com writes:
> Curt,
>  
> L.D. convinced me on the kerosene approach.  I'm going to start the 
> treatment tonight with the liquid wrench and I'll see how it goes 
> for a couple of weeks worth of soaking.  I'll keep you posted.  On 
> another issue, I've called 3 different radiator shops to see if they 
> would boil my NOS gas tank for the 64.  Two declined due to 
> insurance restrictions and the other wouldn't touch it.  I'm going 
> to try one more shop in Manassas that my brother-in-law told me 
> about tomorrow.  Does anyone have any recommendations? If I have no 
> luck, I have 3 quarts of Marine Clean on hand and plenty of gravel.  
> I guess I'll give it a shot this weekend.  If I can't get it clean 
> enough I'll have to bite the bullet and get a new tank.    
>  
> Ron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clshimp at juno.com
> To: novacc-list at corvair.org
> Cc: ldbrent at aol.com
> Sent: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [NoVa-Corvairs] Saturday Meeting
> 
> 
> Ron:
> 
> Don't forget that L. D. and I removed the spark plugs from the '65.  
> L.
> D. suggested you put kerosine in the cylinders and keep refilling 
> them if
> they empty.  You maybe able to use a ATF funnel to add the kerosine
> through the spark plug holes.  It would help if you could add some 
> Liquid
> Wrench type fluid to the kerosine.  What helps is something that 
> lowers
> the surface tension of the kerosine to help it creep down around and 
> past
> the rings.  Liquid Wrench has this sort of additive in it.  It may 
> take
> weeks to get results and possibly you may never be able to loosen 
> them
> this way.
> 
> Curt
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