Just a quick one peeps, went to my garage today and noticed a strong smell of petrol, coming from the XT had a closer look and could see petrol around the bottom "rim" of the tank, on the right hand side where the tank juts forward.

I took the plastics off to find all the paint bubbling off and petrol seaping from the rim, looks like when the "approved insurance repairers" sorted my bike, after my little off, I didnt get a new tank just got mine repaired
And guess what the work is only good for 2 years which ran out on 12/12/09 boy am I going to ring Bennetts on Monday and have a good fu*king rant.

Anyhoo does anyone know of a product i can use to seal the tank again once I have fetched all the paint off, or will it have to be welded up,

On the paint front does anyone know if you can get the tank paint in can form ? if so whats colour ?

Just trying to keep costs down etc etc

Cheers Fozzer......

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Hey Fozzer. That type of treatment from repair company deserves more that a rant...guess my rant and your rant may be 2 different things..
You can try a product like Pratley Steel maybe. If must be a very small crack if it is only seeping through slowly. Empty tank and sand the area a bit. Then use Pratley Steel. It is in tube form with one tube being a resin and other part a epoxy i think, and once you add the 2 together it sits like magic. Soft and easy to work and will foirm smooth finish that you can paint. Small can of model paint will do. The ones you get at art and craft shop used for painting model plastic airplanes etc. Comes in 1000 colours
Good luck

As an alternative to sanding down and coating the outside, you may find it more appropriate to coat the inside with a two part epoxy. I saw a kit for treating classic car/bike fuel tanks in a place I used to use called Frost auto restoration. To save you a spot of looking, Frost's is out of stock, but it POR15 brand stuff from the US.

Loctite 'Plastic Padding' Leak Fix!! Specially designed for petrol, diesel and oil tanks. Fixed a crack on the underside of my 600 Tenere tank with a piece of glass fibre and the stuff. Didn't even have to clean it beforehand. Still holding after 6 years!! And it sets in minutes. Great stuff.

Rob

Well have a rant with the Insurance Company who are sending a engineer to look at the repair to the tank and even though it is outside the two year peroid if it was not repaired correctly, they will sort it.

Watch This Space

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who did the repair work?