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| | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 | Fellow bolters need your help. While driving home tonight in my wife's 2000 explorer I ran over an object in the road that put a nice little cut in the lower corner of the fuel tank.I am a welder by profession but looking for an eazy solution to the problem.I was wondering about using J-B Weld, any body have good sucess with this sort of problem? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 275 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 275 | I patched a hole in my gas take using a 2 part compound. I don't know the name of it but it's like putty that came in a round tube. Cut off how much you need and mixing in your hands and stick it on. I fixed that hole about 7 years ago and it still holds gas.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 305 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 305 | quick steel works well as long as it is dry and jb weld works to if need temp fix use a bar of sope to run tank dry
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 | They sell a gas tank repair kit that has a wax or something that you work into the hole to temporarily stop the leak. You then apply an epoxy over that for the permanent fix. I would go to a parts house and see what's available,
Scott | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 125 Member | | Member Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 125 | Several years ago I hit hard on the oilpan in my '68 Corvette when going over a speed bump coming out of a casino in Reno, NV. It was late afternoon on a Sunday and the closest garage that was open used J-B weld to plug the hole (about the size of my little finger). I drove the car 200 miles to home and it never leaked another drop. Of course I had a new pan put on the next day but it proved to me the value of J-B weld. It sure should seal a gas tank leak.
'58 3600 350/4-sp/stepside/big window cab
'59 3100 235/4-sp/stepside
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,517 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 1,517 | I used j-b weld on a sedan delivery gas tank quite a few years back,,,its still holding. good stuff. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 707 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 707 | Seal-all. Just slather it right on the gas as it leaks out the hole. We use it in the bush all the time. Quick, easy and permanent.
1951 3800 Be the change you want to see. -hotshoe
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 | Thanks guys, knew I could depend on a good help solution. Neal
53 3100 | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 641 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 641 | napa has a fiber glass patch made for gas tanks it works good ive used one never had to look at it again didnt have to pull the tank sanded it to clean metal around the area | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,442 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,442 | in an emergency, you can often seal a small hole with a piece of wood jammed into the hole...
Another quality post.
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 483 | Well, hole is sealed, used a stuff that you kneed and put a small portion in to the hole, then used J-B and put 4-5 thin layer over, filled tank and all seems ok so far, THANKS FOR YOUR HELP. "This could never happened to a 53 3100./Tank is in cab". Neal | | |
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