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Ive never tried epoxy but it should act as another layer of insulation since it’s not metal like JB weld or an aluminum band?

 

I had corrosion myself under straps no leaks yet. I cleaned up and thin coat of grease. All I had. A product called Seals All will seal a gas tank. I would use a few layers of it. It’s cheap and easily found in a yellow tube.Ive used it on car tanks twice at seam. Maybe plug or cover hole with tiny aluminum foil plug or patch to keep Seals All from dripping into tank first.

 

Thanks for the reply


Can't wait to get going on my truck. What size are International straps?

 

JB weld is just thickened epoxy. Sandblast the area that needs to be repaired if you can. The pores do wonders for bonding the epoxy.

Personally I would drop the tank and do the soap detection method and have it tigged.

I have owned a and repaired a few pontoon boats down in Florida over the years.

 

Improvements help take the sting out of repair good deal.

 

Where did you get your wiring harness for your trailer lights?

 

What I did on my haul road tanks was to weld a 1/8 X 4 inch band around the tanks, or rather had my son do it. He probably done 12 to 15 other oo's trucks after I had him do mine.
My 97, 9400 was probably the most trouble free and profitable truck I have ever owned, plus the way they are layed out inside, they are one of the most comfortable over the road trucks for the older trucks, in my opinion.
The ride is better than most, I ran rough roads and changing the sleeper shocks every year or so made a world of difference.
I bought the parts to use those polishing disc at iowa 80, I had the disks for probably a year or more and tried everything to use them before I finally found the correct kit for them.
I also use the da like you have, but never knew I could get any finer grit discs for it, where online did you find it?

I was glad to see you put an original seat back in yours, I have the nice swivel seats in mine, and tried to price new ones at many international dealers, all any of them wanted to do was sell me something aftermarket they had on the floor. I finally had to put mine in the shopin Anchorage Alaska, because I broke one of those special tank bolts and had no way to get the broken bolt out of the T, and they didn't have a new T for the strap, While they were replacing it, I was shooting the bull with the partss manager, and he said he could get me the correct seat, for 450 out the door, but it would take 2 weeks, perfect I was headed to Tx and back in 2 weeks, ne also got me new pads and upholstery for the passenger seat for something like 160 bucks. I had swapped the cushions a year or so before.

 

Some body ask earlier why the original owner kept the truck 6 years after they quit running.
Well why not. It has been longer than that since I have hauled a load with my 3400, and folks try to buy it regularly. I do keep crank and run it down the block a few times a year.

My thinking is, all I could get out of it would be 15,000 max. Not that would not look good sitting in the bank, but if I ever need it, I could make that in two weeks with it, so why sell it for no more than I could run it two weeks and make anyway.
My other though was if I never use it again, I and I live long enough to retire, just put a single axle rear under it and use it to pull a fifth wheel around the country, it would be worth more to me for that use than what I could get out of it..