Growing up my dad took a bar of soap and rubbed it over the pinhole in the tank and it worked like a charm. I don't

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Jun 28, 2017
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Rhino84

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Struggling to seal a leaky gas tank in the pickup.

Superman21

6/28/17 10:26pm

Have you considered welding something to it first to stop the leak then epoxy it

Fatalplacebo

6/28/17 10:32pm

It's a plastic tank

Superman21

6/28/17 10:32pm

And?

Fatalplacebo

6/28/17 10:34pm

Fine, ok. In all seriousness, I'd drain it. Don't make the hole bigger.

Fatalplacebo

6/28/17 10:38pm

If it were metal, you'd weld it while it was full. But, plastic...I got nothin.

OldCosmo

6/28/17 10:49pm

Weld while it's full? Are you trying to kill Superman?

Pimpin4Paradise

6/28/17 11:05pm

Yes, you weld on a tank when it's full. There's a reason it's called GASoline.

OldCosmo

6/28/17 11:47pm

Growing up my dad took a bar of soap and rubbed it over the pinhole in the tank and it worked like a charm. I don't

Rhino84

6/28/17 11:22pm

That freaking worked!

Superman21

6/28/17 11:55pm

If it's dry I'd epoxy the crap out of it with the appropriate stuff.

Backcountry

6/29/17 12:11am

Sounds like you should drain the tank to do a solid epoxy repair.

nuts

6/28/17 11:51pm

I did the soap which stopped the seaping

Superman21

6/29/17 12:19am

Drain the tank, weld the plastic. Job's done forever.

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