Hindsight is 20/20

From my notes of July 10

Yesterday I removed Natalie's gas tank. Once I got the gas out (very gritty gas) I cleaned 'all' the rust out. I flushed out the cleaner and the water was clear. I the took out my high pressure sprayer and went to work on it. It took 90 minutes of the sprayer until the water stopped coming out ugly brown. I put the tank back in. I now feel half way confident to put in gas and run it once I finish the engine
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So I have been working on a myriad of problems, among them are the fuel gauge not operating correctly and a filthy gas tank.
After all the cleaning of the tank, I reinstalled it and put some new gas in the car.
I messed around with the fuel gauge and could not get it working properly. She ran out of gas on my way home from a short drive. Thankfully, I listened to some of the advise I got here and kept a small gas can in the trunk.
After putting in some gas, I drove over to the gas station and filled her up and the gas can too. Lo and behold the fuel gauge is not completely dead.

I get home and put her in the garage, until my wife comes in saying the garage stinks. I go out and look and the fuel tank is leaking.

I siphoned off about 4 gallons and the leaking stopped.
I ordered a new tank from Minnesota for $119 including freight. The shops around here wanted a minimum of $150 just to look at the old tank.
New tank should be delivered tomorrow.



The pictures are from before I cleaned it initially.