Topic: One Step Forward

[Moorey]

As posted a few weeks ago I recently acquired a 76 cb750f supersport. I have just fit new coils. caps, plugs, points, condensers, stripped the carbs and ultrasonic cleaned. Rebuilt and run on a fuel bottle, now seems to run sweet just needs a chance to get it on the road to test. So today I thought I would clean out the tank as there was a bit of crap and rust in it. Put a few nuts and bolts in it and gave it a good shake. Drained it and flushed it out with clean fuel. Put it back on the bike and filled with fuel only to find out it now has a pin prick hole in it. So the tank is back off and drained the hole cleaned up and I will solder it up  sometime shortly.
Question   When it is soldered  should I use something like POR15 tank sealer or wait and see if anymore holes develop.

Cheers Chris.

[calj737]

Tank liners are either a "preference" or "required" due to pinholes. If you are not opposed to a liner (I'm not)  then line it and move along and forget the soldering.

[Powderman]

If you're having to fix pin holes now, more will follow. It would be smart to seal it at this point.

[70CB750]

I soldered my tank and I happy with it.

Prefer that to a liner.

[Moorey]

Its just that soldering is quick and easy.

[BollarNPS]

I chose to have a radiator company redkote mine and it is working great so far.

[jonda500]

I braized all of the many pin holes in my 500 tank and had it professionally resprayed nearly three years ago - it still is leak free and has NO tank liner as I hate those fickle freakin things!
John

[Trad]

The only problem is that if you have one or a few pinholes spring up, you can bet it's almost as thin in many other areas of the tank. Just saying that's usually the case.

[Moorey]

Soldered the tank this morning and took the bike for a run 50mls it now runs great at any speed throughout the rev range, smooth as silk, well happy.