Bad news with the Yellow Seca900 tank

I think the guy who sold me this bike more than one year ago did a very bad job on the fuel tank. The paint already showed small bubbles when I bought the bike. This morning while I was doing some work on the Black Seca I just bought, I realized the Yellow Seca fuel tank paint has gone a lot worse.

So I started roughly stripping the bubbling paint, what I discovered made me think the tank is a piece of sh*t.

What do you think?



In addition to the external issues, the inside of the tank was dressed with some creamy stuff apparently without removing the surface rust before, well that's the way it looks like because the inner surface is pretty rough in there.

I think I should look for another tank.

 

Does it leak? Epoxy liners need some surface rust to bond well, so I would not discard the tank based on how the liner looks.
The exterior is suffering from poor prep work, and I see what looks to be epoxy that has filled some holes (that is further evidence supporting my guess that the tank has an epoxy liner),

If it isn't leaking, then you have an easily salvageable tank. If it is leaking then the tank is still salvageable, but the liner will have to be identified (and possibly stripped).

Used tanks in good condition are getting harder to come by, and are also getting to be reasonably expensive. Finish stripping the paint and filler from that one, and shoot some more pics so we can help you evaluate it.

FWIW I've seen tanks in far worse condition that have been repaired to better-than-new condition. Your's is nowhere near being junk, but it might end up in your parts stash if you can find a better-condition tank for cheap.

 

All right, thank you for your evaluation. I won't shove it in the garbage can for the moment. Stripping process will have to wait until spring I guess.

I think it was leaking enough to make the paint bubble more and more threw to past year, and I have to say that some paint/gasoline-mix has dripped on the frame on the righthand side of the bike.

I also have a line on a supposedly good tank for 75$ one hour from my place. I'll go see it in two weeks. It is painted in white, so I could match it with an extra set of front fairing-side covers I have.

 

On the other hand, I'm satisfied with my last buy, the BLack Seca started on the second push of the button even after a month of sitting alone careless. It will obviously use a valve adjustment, and carb tuning, but it sounds like a good engine.

 

I removed the gas cap, the petcock and the fuel guage to allow the tank to fully dry up. I'll spray some fogging oil on it to slow down the rusting process until I have the time to work on it.

Any other advice to help keeping it in good shape will be appreciated.

 

After you've fogged it inside and out, bag it to keep the dust and condenastion at bay.

 

Do you mean a big plastic bag , like a garbage bag ? Or a heavy paper one?

 

Plastic.