help fuel leak

[graham198]

hi ive just noticed that ive got a leak in my tanks at the bottom on the side i cant see any holes and fuel is slowley coming out whats the best way to solve this apart from a new tank lol cheers

[winnerevo1]

POR15 should do the trick, been in one of my tanks for over 5 years and no probs.

DON'T USE PETSEAL! ;D

[scott]

i tried soldering mine and so far it is petrol tight,it had been standing a while with no petrol in so was safe to get hot.it did'nt affect paintwork up the sides of the tank either.small pin holes i cleaned up and with a bit of flux just jabbed the slder on and filed down flat,the bigger holes a cut a patch from a tin lid and blobbed sloder round the hole which then went hard,i then held patch on with a screwdriver and reheated the solder working round sticking patch and finally cleaned down and filled over and patched paintwork in with the old,because it's got the speed blocks i just masked upto the white line then repainted all that 1 block black and re-laquared.not a show bike so depends what u want really mate.

[scott]

Jan 24, 2011 22:41:29 GMT 1 butchers said:

Thats a work of art scott seen it a few times your work on this tank and i'm more impressed the more i see it ;D ;D

well i'd got nuffin to lose m8 as tank was well holed so thought i'd give it a try and so far so good,it helped with having the speed block to mask up to aswell tho.just the yellow that reacted with sommat that lets it down :-/not fussy tho me m8 ;D

[LC_BOTT]

That's a very nice job on the tank soldering, what did you use, a proper powder or jelly flux, never could get it to stick when I tried once, got a guy at work to fit a new plate in mine in the end, was at the bottom of a 3MA tank where the fuel tap sits.

[lcowner]

i threw out an lc tank wen i started my rebuild,whish i hadent now after seeing this ...........it wasent even that bad few holes n bottom

[scott]

Jan 25, 2011 9:43:21 GMT 1 LC_BOTT said:

That's a very nice job on the tank soldering, what did you use, a proper powder or jelly flux, never could get it to stick when I tried once, got a guy at work to fit a new plate in mine in the end, was at the bottom of a 3MA tank where the fuel tap sits.

the solder was the leaded type none of this ozone friendly stuff and the flux was a plumbers jelly flux