It's just hit n miss XS1B " Great Bear "

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It was a long drive and I paid too much
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So it ran but gas was pouring out. Tried again this morning made it around the driveway. But it didn't feel happy. and the gas smelled skunky.
Petcocks were very reluctant to turn on and off.
Took a break, went to watch Allison at a horse show
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There was rust in the tank and a red liner, Wiped it with a bit of acetone and the rag turned red, time to get rid of the gas.
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The blob isn't rust it's syrupy red liner.
Um the liner is not fuel proof.
Acetone rinses, then evaporust and finally quality liner will go in.
Will dump the float bowls and hope like hell the motor doesn't pull a "Bob"
The good news is the "cardboard box of parts" was pretty big.
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Chain is tight'r n a drum WTF?
No airboxes, drats.
overall-
:doh::shrug::shootme:

Funny but true story; guy lived down some short dead end streets in a "toney" neighborhood. I had the bike on the trailer and strapped down, a guy comes by in a pickup and offers me more than I paid. I was pretty tempted. But noooo, dum bass took it home with him.
 
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Bike's on the "second lift" out in the shed. The long gas tank lining/rust removal process has started, several days of a quart of acetone and occasional sloshing resulted in a disgusting pan of red coat and rust. Need to dump in more acetone and drywall screws, fire up the cement mixer/tank shaker.
 
Crappy dirty acetone still coming out of the tank 😓
so thought I'd see what was under the black paint on this one.
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The acetone softened the black enough so a wire brush took most of it off.
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The primer is made of sterner stuff. My usual heat gun and putty knife bondo remover was a winner here. no major dents, so far not even minor ones.
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gggGary said:
The long gas tank lining/rust removal process has started, several days of a quart of acetone and occasional sloshing resulted in a disgusting pan of red coat and rust. Need to dump in more acetone and drywall screws, fire up the cement mixer/tank shaker.
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Crappy dirty acetone still coming out of the tank 😓
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Did you do the cement mixer with acetone thing? I ask because when I shake a sealed closed tank with acetone in it, it seems to create an alarming amount of pressure.
 
Over a month's time; went through about a gallon of acetone, several heated soakings with evaporust. multiple sessions of turning with a pound of screws in it blowing out dust with compressed air and FINALLY POR tank liner, continously turned to coat and drained out. Couldn't get the microcard to work in the boroscope but it looks really good everywhere inside now.
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Will hang it by the basement wood stove over winter.
I went and checked two other tanks I did the same way, drying for about a week, they've had gas in them for several months and they look great inside.
 
gggGary said:
Over a month's time; went through about a gallon of acetone, several heated soakings with evaporust. multiple sessions of turning with a pound of screws in it blowing out dust with compressed air and FINALLY POR tank liner, continously turned to coat and drained out. Couldn't get the microcard to work in the boroscope but it looks really good everywhere inside now.
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Will hang it by the basement wood stove over winter.
I went and checked two other tanks I did the same way, drying for about a week, they've had gas in them for several months and they look great inside.
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Why POR over Caswell? Any particular reason for the preference...just curious?
 
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Why POR over Caswell? Any particular reason for the preference...just curious?
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Recommendations, local availability. On the first tank I needed to get it done.
I've always been a bit put off by Caswells prep (or lack of) instructions. There were product shortages and the Caswell epoxy was only available in colors that weren't appealing to me.
PS. I used a plastic oil bottle as a funnel to pour the POR in the tanks last spring, even on the flexible "oily" plastic bottle the POR seems to be on there for the ages, a putty knife had a hard time prying it off.
:twocents: My opinion has always been two part epoxy is a better product here, but POR seems to be as good as the epoxies. Shrug.
 
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gggGary said:
:twocents: My opinion has always been two part epoxy is a better product here, but POR seems to be as good as the epoxies. Shrug.
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I don’t remember ever reading about any POR15 failure here. And only one for Caswell. (The Caswell liner was not installed by the bike owner)
 
Gahh, Red Kote is the worst. I had to clean it out of a CB550 tank.
The PO had had applied the Red Kote over the rust!
It was a chore to get the job done without damaging the paint.
I used POR15 as well. I've done a couple of tanks with it and I like the results.
POR15 is a cyanoacrylate, like super glue. It goes off with exposure to moisture.
 
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