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A pre-cleaner would have kept the mice out of mine.
How to put a price on it. Might be rare but how much demand. Us guys here? I have other things to save for.
Is there anything inside the cap like a pre-cleaner? I have always wondered why there was no pre-cleaner mounted on the G749 air cleaner like on the M35's.
Well it was a nice day here in the south. So I took to sand blasting.
Here is the before for the corner and the after.
Oh joy, now I have pin holes to repair. Just shows how bad the rust was.
Here is where the blasting ended near the baffle.
The rest I will blast another day...
You are just a few steps ahead of me. I have the same instructions. I have my Phosphoric acid ready, acetone and I plan on using this tank sealer -
http://www.hirschauto.com/prodinfo.asp?number=GTS
It claims to be alcohol resistant. We will see.
I just know with these sealers you need to...
I have given up on the sharp stones and the muratic acid. I have declared total war on the xm211 fuel tank.
I got the plasma cutter out and cut the baffles. I will wield them back later. In the photos you can see the rust I can't get out. Next I will use the sand blaster.
I had a thought on the drive home from work. I can get my arm inside the tank where the pump opening is. Instead of cutting a hole in the outside of the tank I could cut a hole in the baffle. Then I could get the sand blasting nozzle in there. Then when it gets nice and clean weld the...
I did use some sharp stones in the tank and strapped it to the forks of my tractor to shake it. Its a 60 gallon tank so its hard to strap to a wheel.
The gravel did get a lot of rust but there is just a lot there.
Alan
Well it has been a long road working on this fuel tank. Sometime in Jan I bought some molasses and turned the tank on end with the pump and filler opening on the up end. I poured in the molasses and hot water. Then I added enough water to fill the tank so the water level was just at the pump...
True, overall the truck is not bad. Engine is stuck. I am not sure how bad. No intake or exhaust manifolds are there. Transmission is really greasy looking. Radiator has a cut place in the lower tank. (Looks like tractor fork marks to me.) But yes I have seen worse.
I got the tank support arms. (Should have brought a hammer and chisel to bust rusted nuts)
Plus I got the spare tire shield and the front metal plate that bolts on the bumper.
Yeah! Went to check out a local gents old M211 in the woods. Not much of the truck left but the fuel tank support arms and metal straps where still in place! :clinto:
Take a trip down to Ralph's place and see if he has any pump rebuilding kits. The kit will have a new armature and the four rubber support rods for holding the pump in place. (Get a few and share them out) ;)
Other than that kit the rest is just cleaning out.
About a month ago when it was dry I shoveled out the cab of this truck from the leaves and debris inside. I found a usable headlight ring.
Then I put a tarp over the cab and almost all of the front. It shed rain good but the snow we had made an impression that collected a bunch of water. I...