Gas tank full of rust! help?

[DDanhour727]

I recently bought my first boat and one of the many problems is my gas tank under the floor board has rust and water in it, how do I clean that out?

[rbh]

I would start by seeing how much rust you have,
if it is just rusty water and no big flakes, remove, empty, flush, swish some new oil around for a coating and away you go after you replace all your filters and clean the carb.
If you have big flakes coming out, its time to replace.
rob

[WAVENBYE2]

Have you tried a hand pump to pump it out>

[Lion hunter]

How difficult is the tank to remove? If you can get it out there is a product called Kreem thats used to recoat the inside of tanks. Used on old motorcycles all the time.

[Bilgamesh]

I had a classic Bronco 4X4 with a rusty gas tank. It clogged filters like crazy until I used a product called red-kote. You can get it at O-Reilly's.

http://damonq.com/files/Red-Kote.pdf

[Lion hunter]

Looks to do the same thing except kreem is a 2 part system. The 1st part removes rust and etches and the second part coats.