Seattle / PNW gas tanks flush/coat

[floatinghat]

I want to have my tank flushed and coated anyone in the Seattle area to do the job correctly.

[RonB]

Hi: I would try "Tank-R-Nu". They do all kinds of tanks - none a to small or too large. When they finish it looks just like new.

I have used them in the past on 190Sl tank. Its a franchised operation. They are all over.

[scoot]

I want to have my tank flushed and coated anyone in the Seattle area to do the job correctly.

Coating tanks is slightly controversial, as is boiling them.   It would help if you stated "why" you want to do this...  If you do have it coated, it is important to make sure that the return fuel inlet pipe and the supply pipe in the bottom of the tank do not get coated.  The two typical failure modes of the tanks is   a) lacquer buildup   and  b) rust.   Treatment depends on which of these is your problem.  Coating may fix everything, but isn't necessarily the only answer.

[floatinghat]

I understand the flower POT and my tank has been drained a couple of times.  What I am looking to accomplish is preservation for storage and rust in the tank.  I looked at a tank r nu but there weren't any on the west coast I located.  My understanding rather than boil out they cut in half and "seal" and weld shut, keeping all flower pot etc passages open?  Coating might not be the correct term.

The car doesn't get driven much and is an example in March of 80 approx 53K miles currently 62K miles.  So I would be happy to hear of other alternatives.

[scoot]

I understand the flower POT and my tank has been drained a couple of times.  What I am looking to accomplish is preservation for storage and rust in the tank.  I looked at a tank r nu but there weren't any on the west coast I located.  My understanding rather than boil out they cut in half and "seal" and weld shut, keeping all flower pot etc passages open?  Coating might not be the correct term.

The car doesn't get driven much and is an example in March of 80 approx 53K miles currently 62K miles.  So I would be happy to hear of other alternatives.

Well, my first comment is that if isn't broke, don't fix it.  If you have a rust situation in the tank, or if you have a lacquer situation in the tank, then those are both things to fix.  If not, then I think it might be ok but unnecessary to do something.  My understanding is that there are/were coatings on the interior of the tank so as to preserve them, and that doing much of anything will alter that. 

Coating is a correct term, I'm not familiar with the cut-in-half and weld shut again approach but it sounds better than most. 

Also, why has your tank been drained a couple of times, and when drained, was there solids coming out of the tank?  Are you having clogged fuel filter issues?   Or is this entirely for preservation of a car that isn't having issues with the fuel tank and you want it to stay that way...   If that's the case then I would defer to the opinions of others.  My experience is from the perspective of having had a couple of cars with gas sitting for years and needing to fix things such that they were not clogging up the fuel system.

[floatinghat]

Thanks for you reply.

Light rust from when the tank isn't topped.  So not really an issue, I am not getting flakes in my pre-filter but something that I would like to address.  I drained the tank when I picked it up from my father (around 2000) as the fuel although "stabilized" was old.  I did it again a few years later when the car sat about a year before the tank was topped.

I see you are in Pasadena, that is where the original owner of my car lived.  Kind of funny to see a receipt from the dealer for $1.38 for a hose service or $198 for 4 tires installed...