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niles steckbauer (Niles500)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 10:45 am: | |
Our 6 month old (18k miles) ford f650 (cummins) has developed major rust in the steel fuel tank - any ideas on how to deal with this - or should we just scuttle them and get new S/S tanks?
Niles |
David Dulmage (Daved)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 10:56 am: | |
I'd be asking Ford to somethingn about it first. Aren't fuel tanks considered part of the emissions control system?
DaveD |
James Maxwell (Jmaxwell)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 12:49 pm: | |
Right on Dave, they certainly are, and warranted for at least 50k mi. by Federal law. |
H3 (Ace)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 2:38 pm: | |
LOL Weren't you at the tank seminar? Change it out to an aluminum tank and it will last for years and years! LOL
Ace |
Craig (Ceieio)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 3:46 pm: | |
Unless it was in a flood I'd be telling Dearborn to come get their fuel tank... |
John that newguy
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 8:04 am: | |
A Federal "no rust or else" law?
The gubberment is more intrusive than ever before in history,
but I'd sure love to actually see a copy of that assumed legislation
before I take someone's word that it actually exists.
There are other factors, though:
http://www.transferflow.com/html/regulations.html |
niles steckbauer (Niles500)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 07, 2005 - 9:13 am: | |
Thanks all - Taking it to shop and they will verify the cause and hopefully R/R it - we think the truck sat new a long time with little or no fuel in it - you should have seen the bag of rust that came out of the filter - Niles |
TWODOGS (Twodogs)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 6:49 pm: | |
one of my old cars....a 1940 Packard....sat for YEARS with no fuel in the tank...(this blew me away)...the bottom of the tank was fine...but the TOP had hundreds of tiny little holes in it...I fiberglassed the entire top of the gas tank... |
Robert Or (Ortindustries)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 9:50 am: | |
Ours did the same thing. It appears that the rust is from sitting around BEFORE you bought the vehicle. We had taken ours to Caterpillar thinking something was wrong with the engine. They pulled rust out of the tanks and we went back to Ford. The owners manual clearly states that the tanks MUST BE KEPT FULL. The liners will deteriorate if not. Our truck was built a YEAR before we bought it. At first Ford would not warranty it but after we showed them what CAT had said and the date of build they relented. |