RustyNissanPrairie Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 My fuel tank is leaking and needs replacing. Does anyone make a more corrosion proof tank than a standard steel tank? Its for a 200tdi 110. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cackshifter Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 I believe safari equipe do them in stainless, but might well be cheaper to buy another landrover, I think you are talking around 450 GBP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco-Ron Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Rusty.... is your tank in the rear..??? i would suspect a newer td5 tank would be plastic.........! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickwilliams Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 If it's for a diesel engined vehicle the tank cannot be galvanised. Galvanising dissolves in diesel and may form little flakes of zinc which, if they get past your fuel filter, will knacker the injection pump. Unless you habitually use diesel from dodgy sources and end up with water in the tank, the corrosion will be on the outside of the tank only so stripping a new tank back to bare metal and giving it a good coat of decent quality primer and several coats of gloss is probably the best protection you will get if you can't stretch to the cost of a stainless tank. Over the lifetime of a Landrover I think fuel tanks probably need to be considered as disposable - they are surprisingly cheap to buy as pattern parts. Nick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNissanPrairie Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 Thanks for the info Nick. Didnt want a plastic TD5 style tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickwilliams Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 I think the biggest problem with the metal style of tank is that the guard which goes underneath the tank (and is spot welded to it) creates a perfect gap (in the space between the guard and the tank) for mud to accumulate. I took the guard off mine in so as to make it possible to get at the tank and paint it properly. I then made a stainless guard to replace the old steel one. There's a gallery here which shows how I did mine. Nick. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyNissanPrairie Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 For some reason Nick it wont let me view your link. Im probably going to buy an aluminium tank guard and find who does the best quality standard tanks and slap a load of zinc paint on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickwilliams Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 For some reason Nick it wont let me view your link. Try again now. For some reason, the 'public' flag was not set. Nick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzar Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Another potential problem with the galv approach is that sometimes solder/lead is used to seal the tanks, although I suspect that any displaced solder would be replaced with zinc! G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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