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Originally Posted by 69Tom
No kidding. I'm glad you posted this. I just got a 72 and only had earlier trucks prior to this so I was all set to chuck my original tank and just buy a new one. After reading through numerous threads on the subject, I think I'm going to take my tank to the local radiator shop and have them hot tank it to clean it out and see where I'm at at that point. Mine is a SoCal desert truck, so if it wasn't lacking a cap for god knows how long, there'd probably be nothing too wrong with it.
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I don't blame you for trying to save the original tank. I tried to save the one I just replaced. I put a bunch of time and money into it. All seemed well, then I took it for a drive and started smelling gas fumes. It had developed a pinhole on the back side.