Worked on tank paint

[Joe Sull]

Had a nasty run in my tank paint. Took some body filler and mixed up a little. I smeared it on over the run an inch wide. After it hardened I disc sanded the run down with #600 till the good paint on each side of the run showed. Chipped off the rest of the filler with my fingernail. The polymer that was on the tank made it easy. With #1000, I wet sanded till smooth. I worked the rest of the tank to get the orange peal gone.

Before



After



The run is gone but whats left is a funny arrangement of the metal flake. I like it.



I didn't have compound and used what I have, the headlight restoration compound. It worked but only halfass.

I did another carb sync and turned out the mixture screws to 3 turns. I took a 30 mile blast and she's running
beautiful. Passed a car in 3 rd. I might have hit 8 grand. Oh..happy day!

[Joe Sull]

I sanded the duck bill out today and tried the compound. I got the same result so I stripped the wax off and clear coated. I got now.
The haze goes away, the color comes back and the metal flake is a lot more brilliant.