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Sucks that you had to go backwards a bit. It'll be nice to finish everything up back there and get your suspension/frame buttoned up.

Tell Midas to do something, jeebus. Lazy bum doesn't even get you a neer!:haha:
 
Keep at it bro, looking good.

As an aside, did you do anything special to the tank before cutting on it? All those sparks around a used fuel tank scares the crap out of me. :eek1:
 
ashman said:
As an aside, did you do anything special to the tank before cutting on it? All those sparks around a used fuel tank scares the crap out of me. :eek1:
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One of the Ten Commandments Of Welding related to me was

Thou shalt not weld on an unpurged tank, or thy friends will console thy widow in ways generally unacceptable to thee.
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:haha:

But I donno what you do here -- filling it with water would suck for rust and getting water in the plumbing, but filling it with welding gas would spendy and hard to seal ... :dunno:

-- A
 
nitrogen isn't too expensive and if you just run it at about 5psi while working on the tank it should purge any fuel vapors… just an idea.
 
an old timer i used to work for would just run a hose from the exhaust of a running vehicle into the gas tank and use that as his purge gas before welding or cutting on a tank… not that i would recommend that. It is my understanding that any inert gas will displace the fuel vapors:dunno: all that being said empty or half full gas tanks always make me nervous to work around with any sort of spark or flame… good luck
 
The idea of inert gassing a tank is to displace the oxygen and drop the mixture below the lower explosive limit. Not to displace the flammable liquids or gasses. However on a small open tank that's been aired out for a while, I wouldn't worry so much about it.
 
Z71paramedic said:
Sucks that you had to go backwards a bit. It'll be nice to finish everything up back there and get your suspension/frame buttoned up.

Tell Midas to do something, jeebus. Lazy bum doesn't even get you a neer!:haha:
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I'll tell you the truth, after I got the frame out from under the tub, I was relieved. Simply, it was the best plan of attack for the rest of the stuff I had to do. Fuel lines, brake lines, welding etc..

I can't tell Midas anything, he'll spit slobber on me when he's mad. It's kinda gross. lol

Greg72 said:
Looks to me like he's guarding the tube farm.........MOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!



-G
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How many hours do you think are sitting in that corner? :whistle: :doah:

Z71paramedic said:
Those tubes have already been slaughtered...That's a tube metzgerei (butcher shop for you non-deutsch folk).:whistle:
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Two years in Germany and all I got out of it was, how to order a beer, and where is the damn train. :haha:

jekquistk5 said:
Keep at it mike :thumb:
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Thanks Jess... :bow:

ashman said:
Keep at it bro, looking good.

As an aside, did you do anything special to the tank before cutting on it? All those sparks around a used fuel tank scares the crap out of me. :eek1:
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Thanks Ash...:waytogo:

dremu said:
One of the Ten Commandments Of Welding related to me was



:haha:

But I donno what you do here -- filling it with water would suck for rust and getting water in the plumbing, but filling it with welding gas would spendy and hard to seal ... :dunno:

-- A
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greasemonkey138 said:
nitrogen isn't too expensive and if you just run it at about 5psi while working on the tank it should purge any fuel vapors… just an idea.
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ashman said:
"should" is enough to scare me off still. :rolleyes:
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greasemonkey138 said:
an old timer i used to work for would just run a hose from the exhaust of a running vehicle into the gas tank and use that as his purge gas before welding or cutting on a tank… not that i would recommend that. It is my understanding that any inert gas will displace the fuel vapors:dunno: all that being said empty or half full gas tanks always make me nervous to work around with any sort of spark or flame… good luck
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Chevy305 said:
The idea of inert gassing a tank is to displace the oxygen and drop the mixture below the lower explosive limit. Not to displace the flammable liquids or gasses. However on a small open tank that's been aired out for a while, I wouldn't worry so much about it.
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I'll admit, I was pretty freaked out about the tank. That was until I came up with a sensible plan. I wasn't sure if it would work, so I ran it past Greg..





I went for it after he approved it with Love. :pimp:


All in all, no explosion, and I got to swallow that swig of beer. :D :waytogo:
 
Exposing my privates on the interwebz....???

I feel so violated.






:D

-G
 
Some needed progress yesterday. Lately, it's just been too damn hot to work out in the shop. Pretty burnt out on the 97+ days.


But, I did do a little somthin', somthin', yesterday. :waytogo: Finished all the mods and repairs I had to do to the $20 tank from the JY.

I ran out of time last night on my quick pressure test, but I think that I'm all good with no leaks. I did find one out of the pick-up and did a little sealing on that until I buy a new one. The form a gasket that I dumped on it, just wouldn't dry in time I was ready to shut down. Hopefully this week I'll have a second to do it right and see if she holds. :dunno:


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All tacked in. What a pain in the arse to get it to this point.



I left a small lip to weld to. The last thing that I wanted to do on this weld was directly hit the corner. I would have been chasing blow outs across the tank.



And it smoothed out just a little. 96% of the weld is still there. I also fixed the original hole that was in this tank.



The front all done.

 
Nice work man. Annoying how little $hit can eat up so much time like that. Hopefully the temps drop soon and you guys get some rain, I know you need it!
 
Are you pressure testing this? We used to dial em up to approx 4 psi and brush soapy water along every seam on the tank. Foreman used to 'charge' us a buck a pinhole. I only ever had one tank that didn't cost me at least a buck or two.
 
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