Posted by JD Seller on July 08, 2018 at 14:44:44 from (173.215.45.26):
In Reply to: Fuel tank repair posted by rrlund on July 08, 2018 at 13:40:47:
A diesel tank will not blow. It may burn but it will not blow up. I have brazed holes in the bottom of a lot of them. Just wash it out with dish soap and water. Clean the area around the hole up, wire brush or emery paper. Then I usually braze them with brass. You do not have to get it as hot so you usually do not a bigger hole.
If your not comfortable brazing it then clean it up good and use a product called "Seal All" it is made to work with petroleum products. If it is a large area I have used it and nylon screen as a reinforcement. You can find it at various places, even Walmart.
I repaired the fuel tank in a 1969 Ford car that had holes 2-3 inches in diameter in it. My cousin still has the car. I fixed it around 1980. The tank is still holding. I cleaned the tank to bare metal on the outside. I put a layer of Seal All around the holes. I had precut pieces of screen larger than the holes. I covered the holes with the screen and pressed it down into the seal all. I let this dry until it was pretty hard. I then put a layer over the screen. I worked it through the screen just a little bit. I applied it in 3-4 coats. The worst places were directly under the mounting straps.
If you think the area that is rusted is larger than your small hole you maybe better using Seal All and some screen. Clean the paint and rust off with a light flap disk on your angle grinder. You can easily do six to 12 circle with just few tubes. They used to make BIG tubes but all I can find now are 8 ounce ones. You can buy them for around $10. The good thing is this product does not get hard and brittle. So it does not crack down the road.
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