Cleaning a tank

I've inherited a ....gulp.....MZ ts150.....

I'ts a tinkering project to get me back riding to be honest.....(got
bashed about on an FJ100 an few years back)

Question is ..its been standing for about ten years..in a dry workshop
so its ot toobad, but the tank looks ike someone has taken a dump
inside it..full of 'orrible brown gloop...anyone got any bright ideas
of the best way to return from a comode to a uitable containr for
petrol and oil?

Cheers

GAC

 

please excuse my crap typing and spelling

 

I'd swill it out with clean petrol a few times then fill it with Tesco value
cola and leave it to soak for 24 hours.

 

I have struggled to find a decent solvent in the UK. In the US there is
apparently some kind of carb cleaning bucket available (forget the
name), but you have to make sure you get all of the rubber bits out first.

I have had some success with ultrasonic cleaning, but still searching
for the best liquid to use.

 

Brake fluid works best on the gum/varnish deposits. Again, make sure you've
removed the rubber o-rings etc first.

JB

 

Thanks for the fizzy drink based advice chaps....trip to Sainsburs
then tonight..

 

In that case, just drive it to Tesco and get someone to do it for a
fiver while you go and get your weekly shopping in.

 

<Snip>


And there was me thinking T62.

 

Will...I've started to strip it down...wasn't half a lot of Sh1te in
the tank, its sat in the garage now with 12 litres of 21p for 2ls cola
in the tank....heres hopeing it works....really odd smell like old
varnish or something...yuk..

 

That'll be the old petrol. 'Orrible, innit? You seem to have mis-spelled
shit though. Most of us are grown ups here so you can actually say it.

If it's still manky and rusty after the first soaking empty it, chuck a
length of chain or a handful of screws/bolts in the tank, and shake it as
though your life depended on it. Empty, rinse, repeat etc.

Who's Will?

 

*waves*

 

Will is well...if you see what I mean...I'm just really crap typing.!!