My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

(10-06-2018 )Chamberpains Wrote:  You may want to have where the fuel tank straps ride beefed with an extra welded in piece of aluminum. Or at very least look in to 3M Weatherstripping adhesive to put between the tank and the rubber buffer that goes between the strap and the tank. It's not a bulletproof way of keeping dirt and road chemicals from getting between the strap and the tank and pitting holes in the tank, but it at least extends the some protection from it.

I thought about all of that, but won't know what it looks like until I drop them. Passenger side is dented up in front of and @ the front strap. New tanks are </= $1k. If there's any amount of substantial patching or repairing needed, I'm probably just going to put new ones on. I have little patience for cruddy fuel tanks after my boat's aluminum tank decided to blow a hole in a corroded spot and pour 100 gallons of gas into my bilge and cuddy. Of course then the bilge pump kicked on and made a gas fountain to accent what was already pouring out of the plug onto my freshly paved driveway lol. At least the truck doesn't need to be split in 2 to change tanks.