about a month ago I found my self sitting on the side of interstate 10 broke down. with 2 full tanks of fuel. my fuel lines were empty no fuel coming from eather tank. I drained and dropped the tanks and both were rusted and the screens were laying in the bottom of the tanks so far I have talked to 3 others with 96 ford diesels and all were shocked to find their tanks were rusted out also. J.c. whitney offers a plastic tank.I don't have the money to get some new tanks yet and have been driving the 2000 f350. just a tip for any one that has a 96 ford with steel tanks . for the price of the wrecker towing me home I could have baught both tanks.



Ron

I had the same problem with a steel tank on a gasoline engined Dodge pickup, spent most of an afternoon along the side of the freeway pushing bailing wire through the fuel lines, finally get back on the road. I dropped the tank and sloshed a couple of gallons of meuratic acid around in it for a couple hours to dissolve all the rust. That got rid of the rust but uncovered a few pinholes that I soldered up. I then lined the tank with a quart of liquid tank liner and it has been just fine for the last 10 years.

This worked fine for gasoline but I have not tried it with biodiesel, the new stuff is apparently alcohol safe but I don't know how well it works for bio?

I made up a couple bigger steel gasoline tanks for my van back in about 1975, I lined these with the same liquid tank liner and am just now, 30-plus years later, beginning to collect rust in my fuel strainers sediment bowls. The liquid liner is not exactly cheap but it works, I even sealed pinholes in a vegoil filtering tank with it (2 coats) that has held up just fine even under repeated 120 pounds pressure.

yep that is where i am sitting. I thought i could clean one out and use it. after cleaning the tank you can see pin holes in the bottom .

just a tip...put some aquarium rock in the tank...run it around a bit. It will dislodge a bunch of rust, if there is any. Then the tank line is called Kreem. Its available at most motorcycle shops. Pricey, but it does work. Not sure on how it holds up to bio though. I have used it on quite a few old motorcycle tanks...circa 70's and early 80's

I had the same problem with my 1994 F250 . You can get new steel tanks for pretty reasonable prices from Rockauto.com using coupons available on the web . . Use an aluminum or plastic tank for WVO and biodiesel . If you are considering using a sealing compound , test it first to make sure that the are not problems with WV0 / Biodiesel . Some coatings might be OK but POR15 didn't work out very well in the example below . I think that is safer just to replace the tank. I replaced the diesel tank with a new steel tank for Rockauto.com and the rusty and "poly'd" WVO tank ( http://i33.photobucket.com/alb...ff090708a002-1-1.jpg )with a polyethylene sprayer tank mounted in the bed .


POR-15 Tank coating failure photo -

http://rides.webshots.com/phot...61140061250973uNTMXE

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I've also had luck with gasoline and the plastic tank liner. I have a 1966 Porsche 911 that I rarely drive these days. About 11 years ago it had the same problem of a rusty tank, I used the liner and it's still holding. I pumped it's 2 year old gas out this spring for use in my blending and it's still holding fine. I dumped a few gallons of toluene in there to keep the lines clear etc.

I also note that my 1991 diesel van which I bought just over a year ago had a new tank when I bought it.