Cleaing out a Model A gas tank

[Mike V. Florida]

Originally Posted by Juls

Several years ago I decided to purchase my great grandmother's 1929 Model A.

Congrats on the purshase!

Seeing as though I'm a mechanically challenged female

Will all the mechanically chanllenged males on this board please raise your hands...100-102-103

it may not have been the best decision.

The best decision you could have made was to keep the old girl in the family!!!

The car is in original condition and I use to drive it around the neighborhood until the rust in the gas tank became an issue. It has been in the garage up on blocks for probably close to 10 years and I'm looking for away to clean up the tank so I can start driving it again. Any ideas?

Get a couple of gallons of acetone. drain the gas add the acetone. shake the car and drain. filter the acetone through a cloth and do it again until the color is real dark and does not get darker and repeat with clean acetone. This will get alot of the "gunk" off the bottom of the tank and alot of rust as well.

I would then install an in the tank filter.

Also go to the two major Model A clubs and look for a local branch near you.

http://www.mafca.com/chapters_list.html
http://modelaford.org/pdf/RegionList.pdf