Fuel tanks are no joke to work with. In highschool my shop teacher gave me a gas tank that had been punctured by a rock and asked me to weld it back shut. he told me he had left it sitting outside for a week after pumping out the gas. I took a wire wheel to it to clean the area around the hole and suddely it went WHOOMP! and shot a jet of fire out the hole and out the fill hose fitting!

tank jumped a few feet up in the air and ended up bulged out and swollen so bad it was useless.



Scared the hell out of me and now If I have to do anything to a gas tank that involves heat or friction I hook a hose to a cars exhaust and let the exhaust blow into the filler neck the whole time I am working.

Heres to hoping those 2 guys make a speedy recovery!