Hey i'm Bryan Fuller welcome to my
workshop Fuller Hot Rods (Fuller Moto)
Well if you're watching this, you
probably have a rusty tank. Guess what?
you're at the right place because this
is going to be very easy to get the rust out.
I'm going to show you how with Metal Rescue. I've done a lot of gas tanks over the years.
In fact, one of my main jobs here
fuller hot rods is to modify, change or
build tanks
if you have a car tank you can also
strip rust out of a car tank as well
basically any kind of tank that has rust
in it
so first thing you want to do is make
sure that you get the part off and you
need it to hold water
so leave the petcock on leave the cap on
if you've got a crossover once you pull
it off, either cap the end or put a tube
across basically make it hold fluid.
Second thing you want to do is get rid
of the oil, gas, varnish
muck, anything that's going to be inside
the tank. Now we've already done that
here you can put ball bearings in, soap
and water, obviously hot works better
pressure washers, anyway you can do to
get the varnish and oil out of the tank
because metal rescue is a water-based
solution
so it's not going to go through that
oily substance and get to the rust where
it needs to be so one of the cool things
about this whole process as well is, you
don't need any special tools. If you
look I pretty much got everything I need
I need some Metal Rescue, I need a  tank that holds water
so we've already done this tank as far
as this removing the oil varnish step if
you look at this look at all we brought
out of here
that is a big pile of rust, and that's just
in one little tank
That's probably a gallon and a half.
Alright well let's get this baby started!
So all you need, we're going to take a
bucket we're going to put our tank into
a plastic container, and you say "Why
Brian?" "Why?" Why do we do that?
Well, let's say you pour your Metal
Rescue in and there may not be much holding
this thing together much but paint and
rust
so it's a good idea and obviously if
you're doing a little bit of spilling
it's not going to be a problem now this
is non-corrosive we didn't really talk
about it much but this is water-based
not a big deal
put it on yourself get it on the outside
this isn't going to hurt any of your
gaskets
so I'm going to hurt rubber it's not
going to hurt your petcock
it's not going to hurt really anything
other than the rust
you're going to let it sit for right
about 24 hours and a big big big
important thing is you want to fill this
baby to the brim and the reason is you
have no idea how much rust is in here I
mean it could be just a surface rust and
if it is you might be able to get away
with maybe a half you know maybe just a half tank.
But just to be safe
what we recommend is go ahead and fill
it up to the top and that way you know
that you're going to get all the rust
out if possible.
Then you let it sit for 24 hours
I want to go to fill her up. Close the
lid and then you're done.
all right let's just say it's all the
way at the top I mean you can follow
along at that point right?
ok one more thing temperature want to
make sure that this is up above 68 70
degrees and it's going to work best if
it gets a little bit warmer.
So don't sit outside where it's really cold
get it to a good temperature so you can
work it
now we've already done a tank so let me
show you that.
We cut it open so you could see inside. Look at that!
I mean all that rest is gone on one side
it's really pretty all that patina is
there and four guys out there that love
patina like I do
this is just the most perfect way to do
it because you look at the inside and
look how clean that is it's perfectly
clean on one side and then you get in
that other side is just full of muck I
mean this thing really just pulls rust
from the metal slowly pulling it back
into the water solution
so you can see what a great job this
does now
color won't matter except for on some
other red colors
you might have an issue because of the
red oxide that's in it because it does
attack iron oxide and if you're really
worried about are really expensive red
tank just do a little bit of tests on
some we're not worried about nine times
out of ten at least you're not even
gonna have to worry about it
all right let's move on to the rinse
once again super easy
now you let it sit for 24 hours all the
rest is going but you may have a really
thick coat arrest so let's look inside
and just see how it's doing
when you start pouring it out if it's
black obviously it's doing its magic and
you know if you only have a little bit
of rest it's not going to be crazy black
you might actually be able to reuse it
again
the blacker it is more rust is saturated
the water the less you're going to be
able to reuse it
and by the way if you don't have a lot
in it up to a year which is great
so the three things you can rinse it out
with are gasoline,
new Metal Rescue, or if you want to let
the tank sit around for a while
they've got a water-based rust
preventative from workshop hero
say it again water-based rust
preventative from workshop here oh
that's right
no way this works you pour it in rinse
it around in the tank and it's going to
keep rust off of it for up to a year
when you're done
say it's sitting around for a year now
you want to use the tank simply rinse it
out the gasoline and you're good to go
and by the way while we're here dry coat
she got the little spray bottle you can
keep rust off the outside or anything
that you have laying around the shop
which is awesome
let's talk about tank sealers a little
bit a lot of guys use tanks sealers in
the industry
we don't recommend it and for a couple
reasons one its not tested with Metal
Rescue to level which were comfortable
Two, the brand of sealer that you get and
Three,
once you seal it, it's really hard to get
out. Obviously you can see how easy it is
to remove rust again if you need to, you
pop the tank you put more Metal Rescue
and you get rid of the rust,
piece of cake! So if you have pin holes
and such get it soldered, weld it
whatever you need to do to fix it.
How easy is that? We're done
you just pour Metal Rescue in, you let it
do its magic and you pour it out and
rinse it. So sweet!
Now at the end of the video we're going
to summarize for you were going to give
you all the list of everything that you
need to do so you can stop play stop play.
But other than that,
speaking of play, I got some playing to
do, so I'm out.
Catch you next time
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