Posts tagged Rusty Gas Tank
The D Model Gas Tank is Back and Ready to Install, but First…
It’s back…
OK, you have the D Model fuel tank back from Gas Tank Renu. You can see that they did a great job. The inside is red and the outside is black. Both are are patented coatings that are impervious to any of today’s reformulated, high alcohol based fuels.
So, rest assured that you have a gas tank for your Citroen D Model that won’t be causing you any more rust problems. The other thing is, if you should ever sell your little piece of history, don’t forget to mention what you have done with the tank, because this will definitely make your D model worth more money. More >
Restoring the Rusty Citroen D Model Fuel Tank After Removal…
Did you find the fuel pick-up filter…
When you removed the the fuel line from the tank, and if you still had the large 21mm drain plug out of the tank from the passenger’s side of the D Model, you might have noticed the fuel-pick up filter that I spoke of earlier fall out onto the ground.
If this did not happen, then it is probably still inside of the tank. You want to have that out of the Citroen gas tank at this point, in preparation for what we want to do to the tank next. It will come out easily by tilting the tank toward the filler neck and then tilt the tank back further and it should roll right out. More >
Getting the D Model Ready to Remove the Rusty Fuel Tank…
Remember the rusty tank…
As you remember… our friend stopped because he had a rusty gas tank.
The way that the D Model’s fuel tank is constructed and the way that
it is set up to draw fuel to the engine is good in theory, but in a
rusty situation it sort of works against itself. More >
The Rusty D Model Gas Tank…
Over the years one of the biggest problems I saw new owners of used Citroens of any kind face with a steel fuel tank, was a rusty gas tank.
It was a BIG problem…
Even though the previous owner told him the car was run on a regular basis, there is a good chance that the car sat around for several years before you got it with only a couple of gallons of fuel in the tank. And the previous owner might have driven the car around town a bit and that was the extent of “run on a regular basis”