Petrol tank restoration

beatman11 · 2016-03-04T03:36:04+00:00

I'm looking at restoring the fuel tank in my early beetle. It looks to be in good solid shape (famous last words) it appears the previous owner painted inside the neck! So I'm getting lots of flakes in the fuel filter. Wanting to know what others have done, longevity of work, location, costs and photos? I was thinking of getting the tank zinc plated or similar that uses a dipping process then getting it powdercoated?

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This is the rust blast process with an etch primer as well to help the coating stick

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64 posts · joined Jan 2014 · 26 Sep 2016, 6:29 pm

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This is the actual coating process - took a while to get the bulk of it drained

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64 posts · joined Jan 2014 · 26 Sep 2016, 6:30 pm

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Finally up to giving the outside a quick lick of black

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You shoulda had a new piece of steel TIG welded in to replace the floor of the tank. That woulda lasted 60yrs 🙂

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