General comment on fuel tanks
Hi All
Tony your tank looks great.
I would like to offer a comment for people looking at repairing or stripping tanks. Of my 3 Chevy CMPs the 1941 Pat 12 and the 1942 Pat 13 have plain steel tanks with the neck soldered on, but the 1945 HUP tanks both right and left appear to have been lead or tin coated. I mention this so that anyone can check to see if their tank looks like it is coated. Aggressive cleaning with wire brush, scotch pads or sand paper seems to cut through this coating. The HUP tanks have NO evidence anywhere in side or out of any rust. While the 1941 tanks will need to be rebuilt or replicated because of rust holes and the 1942 showed minor rust when I restored the truck, no holes or leaks then or now.
Has anybody else encountered a coated tank?
The only reason I can see for the tanks to have been coated in the first place was to prevent rust, or to seal tanks that had minor leaks at time of manufacture.
Cheers Phil
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