Gas tank blues

I hope it will last longer than that. I just installed the tank from

4wd.com two weeks ago. I kept my old one. Wasn't rusted through as I thought (surface rust i guess). I'll be pissed if the new rusts through. It was a pain in the butt to install.

Paul Brogren ( snipped-for-privacy@msn.com) wrote on Saturday 11 October 2003 11:46 pm:

I covered mine in that rubberized undercoating. Of cousrse, living in Ft. Worth, Texas, rust doesn't take the toll that it does up north.

I should have told everyone where I lived. Northern Louisiana. So salt wasn't the issue. And it's in a 82 CJ5.

Michael, That was a good move covering it with the undercoating. I wish I had.

Paul, I know you don't want to hear this but...If I were you I'd pull that tank and paint it or something.

Hopefully mine just had a bad coating. Looking inside the tank it looks to have a galvanized finish. The inside still looks like new.

Why it is getting to be so hard to find well made car parts???

Mark Burns

11:46 pm: > > > I hope it will last longer than that.  I just installed the tank from > > 4wd.com two weeks ago. > > I kept my old one.  Wasn't rusted through as I thought (surface rust i > > guess).  I'll be pissed if the new rusts through.  It was a pain in the > > butt to install. > > I covered mine in that rubberized undercoating.  Of cousrse, living in Ft. > Worth, Texas, rust doesn't take the toll that it does up north. > -- > Michael White         "To protect people from the effects of folly is to >             &nbs p;          fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891

I may drop mine and do the coating thing.