Regrettably I forgot to take a good before shot. However, here is a picture of the inside of the lid that gives a pretty good indication of what the inside of the tank looked like.
As you can see, it was pretty well covered with rust. Here is a shot of the inside of the tank afterward. It isn't one smooth uniform color. There are still darker patches. But those darker patches don't really look like rust. Though I can't really say exactly what they are.
Not perfect, but a vast improvement. I will call this good enough. |
Perhaps not perfect, but good enough for a 40+ year old bike. As additional precaution, I am adding a new petcock with new in-tank screen and new petcock screen. Plus I am going to add inline fuel filters which the bike did not have originally.
Here is what the electrolyte solution looked like when I changed it out half way through the process.
Way to go!! Looks like you are on the right track!
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Thanks Gary. -Todd
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