QWERTYMage
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I'm wondering if anyone's seen or heard anything happen like this before.
UPDATE: Apparently, this is a common problem. Dang dang.
So... my garage-kept bike was out of commission for a few months and I finally got it put back together and rolled her out into the street to test my work.
I turned on the petcocks and the fuel was coming out of the carbs like a faucet... I figured out the gas cap wasn't venting properly, so the pressure was forcing all the fuel out under pressure.
Now the weird part:
The fuel that came out looked as if it was full of oil. Dark brown. Dirty. Made no sense.. After I depressurized the tank, I kicked the bike on and besides backfiring like a motherfucker (blew one of my pod filters clean off), so at least I know she runs, but clearly whatever was in the fuel was causing problems. So I looked in the tank again and noticed rust... but no Redkote. I put a flashlight in the tank and did a quick finger check, and it seems like all the Redkote dissolved and was settled in the bottom of the tank... and now I also have a lot of rust too (just surface rust. No holes. It's a newish Lowbrow peanut. I coated the tank about 2 years ago. It was holding up great, but whenever the bike would sit a while, it would require me to pull the carbs every time to clean them out. I never noticed odd color in the gas or in the carbs. The filters look clear visually. Has anyone heard of this happening before. I know tank coating is a hot topic with lots of opinions, but I've never heard of such a situation.
I really liked how the Redkote layed down, and all seemed fine. Has anyone else used Redkote with bad results?
(Sidenote, I'm gonna clean and re-coat the tank and I might as well give it a new paint job. It's just raw metal with a layer of Eastwood clearcoat right now. Looks great bit I'm bored with it.)
What gives?
UPDATE: Apparently, this is a common problem. Dang dang.
So... my garage-kept bike was out of commission for a few months and I finally got it put back together and rolled her out into the street to test my work.
I turned on the petcocks and the fuel was coming out of the carbs like a faucet... I figured out the gas cap wasn't venting properly, so the pressure was forcing all the fuel out under pressure.
Now the weird part:
The fuel that came out looked as if it was full of oil. Dark brown. Dirty. Made no sense.. After I depressurized the tank, I kicked the bike on and besides backfiring like a motherfucker (blew one of my pod filters clean off), so at least I know she runs, but clearly whatever was in the fuel was causing problems. So I looked in the tank again and noticed rust... but no Redkote. I put a flashlight in the tank and did a quick finger check, and it seems like all the Redkote dissolved and was settled in the bottom of the tank... and now I also have a lot of rust too (just surface rust. No holes. It's a newish Lowbrow peanut. I coated the tank about 2 years ago. It was holding up great, but whenever the bike would sit a while, it would require me to pull the carbs every time to clean them out. I never noticed odd color in the gas or in the carbs. The filters look clear visually. Has anyone heard of this happening before. I know tank coating is a hot topic with lots of opinions, but I've never heard of such a situation.
I really liked how the Redkote layed down, and all seemed fine. Has anyone else used Redkote with bad results?
(Sidenote, I'm gonna clean and re-coat the tank and I might as well give it a new paint job. It's just raw metal with a layer of Eastwood clearcoat right now. Looks great bit I'm bored with it.)
What gives?
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I thought Redkote/Creem/etc., whatever, coatings were for old, rusty, holey (or unholy) p.o.s. tanks used for their cool lines or vintage paint jobs... 
