Re: pinhole leak in fuel tank of quattro - suggestions

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.kettering.edu>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Tayo de Boer wrote:

> 	I've got a very small leak in the gas tank along the forward edge of the

Its only small now.  In a short time it will be much bigger.

> tank. Since the car is a quattro getting easy access to the problem area,
> let alone removing the entire tank for repair is a real itch.

Its not that bad actually.   You need to remove theentire rear suspension 
in one unit, with hubs, shocks, diff, etc all attached.  You can change 
thewhole tank in an evening if you hava helper, and air tools to speed 
things up a bit.

> 1.       the first option is to do the repair from the outside: it

You'll never get there.  You really need to seal it up all the way around 
the tank to do this right.

> 2.	the second option would be to seal the leak from the inside. The main


I tried that too.  Didn't work.

I'd just buy a good low mileage junkyard tank, or possibly one that has 
had the RENU process applied to it.  Look very careful;ly if you buy one 
from the junkyard though.  I put one in last winter that looked great, 
and its leaking again already.

Later,
Graydon D. Stuckey

"There's alot more to Jazz than just wrong notes"