Life of the gas tank

[mgraniello]

I am wondering has anybody had any problems with the two side wall mounted gas tanks? The boat is now 26 years old and I am thinking I should replace the tanks. Doess anybody know where I can get them or is it now a custom built tank? how mush would it cost?

[randlemanboater2]

If they aint leaking, you may only need to clean em out. *Being an I/O you shouldn't have that much junk in them (as opposed to the oily gunk buildup in a tank used for premix O/B gas)

I know a couple of guys have discussed this before and had good posts about replacing them, do a search on "saddle tanks".

[mgraniello]

Thank you very much. This is my fisrt day on the website and the responses are excellent

[macojoe]

I still have my side tanks and still use them. Mine is 1975 thats 32 years!

Make sure you clean them well! I drained mine washed with degrease and set in the sun to dry!

One thing that messes up it the ck valves on top of the tanks. They are a little ball in a square fitting on the top of the tanks.
They corrode and get blocked up, there are more then a few that have had to remove these!

[mgraniello]

thanks

[tsubaki]

A little crap on the tanks.
http://www.wellcraftv20.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=General;action=display;num=11739026 73;start=105#105

Scroll to the bottom
http://cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/item-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat21276-cat420004_TGP&id=0001124012943a&navCount=4&podId=0 001124&parentId=cat420004&masterpathid=&navAction= push&catalogCode=IH&rid=&parentType=index&indexId= cat420004&hasJS=true

And one more
http://www.outdoorsuperstore.com/product.asp?prod=260611