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10-13-2003, 12:46 AM

#11

Paul Brogren

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Re: Gas tank blues

I may drop mine and do the coating thing.

--
Thanks Always !!!
Paul '75 CJ5 258
Vail, CO.
"Mark Burns" <(nospam)maburns@***-internet.com> wrote in message
news:vok2vj88v236d2@corp.supernews.com...
> I should have told everyone where I lived.
> Northern Louisiana.
> So salt wasn't the issue.
> And it's in a 82 CJ5.
>
> Michael,
> That was a good move covering it with the undercoating. I wish I had.
>
> Paul,
> I know you don't want to hear this but...If I were you I'd pull that tank
> and paint it or something.
>
> Hopefully mine just had a bad coating. Looking inside the tank it looks to
> have a galvanized finish.
> The inside still looks like new.
>
> Why it is getting to be so hard to find well made car parts???
>
> Mark Burns
>
> "Michael White" <michael12@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:RHnib.8451$av5.609@newsread3.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> > Paul Brogren (pibrogren@msn.com) wrote on Saturday 11 October 2003
> 11:46 pm: 
> > 
> > > I hope it will last longer than that.  I just installed the
> tank from 
> > > 4wd.com two weeks ago. 
> > > I kept my old one.  Wasn't rusted through as I thought
> (surface rust i 
> > > guess).  I'll be pissed if the new rusts through.  It
> was a pain in the 
> > > butt to install. 
> > 
> > I covered mine in that rubberized undercoating.  Of cousrse,
> living in Ft. 
> > Worth, Texas, rust doesn't take the toll that it does up north. 
> > -- 
> > Michael White       &nb sp;
"To
> protect people from the effects of folly is to 
> >
>
        &n bsp;   &nbs
> p;           fill the world
with
> fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891
>
>
>

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10-13-2003, 12:46 AM

#12

Paul Brogren

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Posts: n/a

Re: Gas tank blues

I may drop mine and do the coating thing.

--
Thanks Always !!!
Paul '75 CJ5 258
Vail, CO.
"Mark Burns" <(nospam)maburns@***-internet.com> wrote in message
news:vok2vj88v236d2@corp.supernews.com...
> I should have told everyone where I lived.
> Northern Louisiana.
> So salt wasn't the issue.
> And it's in a 82 CJ5.
>
> Michael,
> That was a good move covering it with the undercoating. I wish I had.
>
> Paul,
> I know you don't want to hear this but...If I were you I'd pull that tank
> and paint it or something.
>
> Hopefully mine just had a bad coating. Looking inside the tank it looks to
> have a galvanized finish.
> The inside still looks like new.
>
> Why it is getting to be so hard to find well made car parts???
>
> Mark Burns
>
> "Michael White" <michael12@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:RHnib.8451$av5.609@newsread3.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> > Paul Brogren (pibrogren@msn.com) wrote on Saturday 11 October 2003
> 11:46 pm: 
> > 
> > > I hope it will last longer than that.  I just installed the
> tank from 
> > > 4wd.com two weeks ago. 
> > > I kept my old one.  Wasn't rusted through as I thought
> (surface rust i 
> > > guess).  I'll be pissed if the new rusts through.  It
> was a pain in the 
> > > butt to install. 
> > 
> > I covered mine in that rubberized undercoating.  Of cousrse,
> living in Ft. 
> > Worth, Texas, rust doesn't take the toll that it does up north. 
> > -- 
> > Michael White       &nb sp;
"To
> protect people from the effects of folly is to 
> >
>
        &n bsp;   &nbs
> p;           fill the world
with
> fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891
>
>
>

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10-13-2003, 12:46 AM

#13

Paul Brogren

Guest

Posts: n/a

Re: Gas tank blues

I may drop mine and do the coating thing.

--
Thanks Always !!!
Paul '75 CJ5 258
Vail, CO.
"Mark Burns" <(nospam)maburns@***-internet.com> wrote in message
news:vok2vj88v236d2@corp.supernews.com...
> I should have told everyone where I lived.
> Northern Louisiana.
> So salt wasn't the issue.
> And it's in a 82 CJ5.
>
> Michael,
> That was a good move covering it with the undercoating. I wish I had.
>
> Paul,
> I know you don't want to hear this but...If I were you I'd pull that tank
> and paint it or something.
>
> Hopefully mine just had a bad coating. Looking inside the tank it looks to
> have a galvanized finish.
> The inside still looks like new.
>
> Why it is getting to be so hard to find well made car parts???
>
> Mark Burns
>
> "Michael White" <michael12@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:RHnib.8451$av5.609@newsread3.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> > Paul Brogren (pibrogren@msn.com) wrote on Saturday 11 October 2003
> 11:46 pm: 
> > 
> > > I hope it will last longer than that.  I just installed the
> tank from 
> > > 4wd.com two weeks ago. 
> > > I kept my old one.  Wasn't rusted through as I thought
> (surface rust i 
> > > guess).  I'll be pissed if the new rusts through.  It
> was a pain in the 
> > > butt to install. 
> > 
> > I covered mine in that rubberized undercoating.  Of cousrse,
> living in Ft. 
> > Worth, Texas, rust doesn't take the toll that it does up north. 
> > -- 
> > Michael White       &nb sp;
"To
> protect people from the effects of folly is to 
> >
>
        &n bsp;   &nbs
> p;           fill the world
with
> fools." -Herbert Spencer, 1891
>
>
>

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