VMCC South Durham

A word of warning chums.I had noted that the Petseal in  a number of tanks had become soft,Last week I removed a tank for some winter maintainence jobs and upon draining the tank noticed the petrol was opaque and most of the petseal had been disolved the remainder became loose and flakey when the tank dried.I spoke to Autocycle Engineering ,the distributirs of this product,they are aware of the problem and this was their responce.Petrol companies have begun to put ethanol in their products and this is what,s disolving the Petseal.They haye a new poduct ,Petseal Ultra they claim is ethanol resistant thus solving the problem.I have spoken to a number of people who supply similar products who say they have had no problems,but they will not catagorically state it resistant to this evil unleaded we have to use.So if you have a tank that has been treated for a number of years, have a look,rectification could be a lot cheaper than the other alternatives.

I must agree dangerous stuff I used it on my cat and he has not eaten for a week:roll:

That's cos it seals your pet

Dont use Petseal its useless ! after a few years it will start to crack as its just fiberglass resin,if you want something that lasts try "Paul Beck" of "Vintage Supplies" they sell a tank sealent thats used to modern fuels and is solvent based

Just tip it in slosh around and let it dry (it looks like white paint) but i have used it many a time and allways works great,£14.90 for a pint tin (500ml for the more moden folk ?) he used to go to Hartlepool autojumble but i dont think he has been for a while,also he has some quite good brass fuel taps/spark plugs and odds n sods for the older machines  worth a look at least