I was thinking of trying some JB Weld. I once used JB Weld to seal a hole in the bottom of the gas tank on a '74 Ford van. It held for years and years. Even after I sold it to my younger brother he never had a leak.
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I was thinking of trying some JB Weld. I once used JB Weld to seal a hole in the bottom of the gas tank on a '74 Ford van. It held for years and years. Even after I sold it to my younger brother he never had a leak.
IMHO only weld or braze any "need to hold fuel" tank mods.
peterg
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JB Weld and Permatex have metal gas tank repair putty. I’ve recently patched a hole in my tank with the Permatex product. It was easy enough to work with.
Regular JB Weld isn't fuel proof. I'm 100% sure of that. You have to use the special fuel tank stuff.
On that note, I've considered using JB Weld lightly on brass floats along the factory soldered rim ? Can't see why that couldn't save a brass float..
I used JB Weld on a plastic tank years ago on the petcock threads. That failed but not because of the JB Weld leaking. The expansion and movement of the plastic tank because of temperature fluctuations along with 2 stroke vibs just worked too hard against success in that case.
I’m not making this up. If you choose to ignore me on this, at least consider the consequences of the eventual failure. It won’t happen overnight, but JB Weld will eventually fail from exposure to fuel. In my case, a failed JB Weld repair (made by PO) led to a fire.
http://www.xs11.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20384&referrerid=1230
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Everything fails eventually... That said, should I use JB Weld I'll use SteelStick or WaterWeld as recommended: https://www.jbweld.com/faqs
peterg
XS650 Addict
JB Weld TankWeld is the best bet for a JB Weld product.
"to JB or not to JB" , that is a question
For me if there's any question of issues new parts are justified in this critical application.
