bostonwhalermontauk1965
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2010
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- 91
Hi
In the boat restoration I am finishing, I have an old steel gas tank, that ,looking back, I never hooked a ground lead to and definitley should have. I once saw a bad fire get started due to a cold dry day and a plastic race car fuel cell that was ungrounded being filled by a plastic can with a vinyl hose on it. Static electricity sparked and ignited one hell of an inferno out of the high octane racing fuel. My question is - I would like to convert to a plastic tank - so is there a grounding tab on these tanks as well? I assume you should ground these correct? I see a spot on my old steel tank for a ground wire - and is it O.K. do you think just to run a ground wire off the negative buss bar I plan on mounting in the center console to the tank? Thank you in advance guys - Paul
In the boat restoration I am finishing, I have an old steel gas tank, that ,looking back, I never hooked a ground lead to and definitley should have. I once saw a bad fire get started due to a cold dry day and a plastic race car fuel cell that was ungrounded being filled by a plastic can with a vinyl hose on it. Static electricity sparked and ignited one hell of an inferno out of the high octane racing fuel. My question is - I would like to convert to a plastic tank - so is there a grounding tab on these tanks as well? I assume you should ground these correct? I see a spot on my old steel tank for a ground wire - and is it O.K. do you think just to run a ground wire off the negative buss bar I plan on mounting in the center console to the tank? Thank you in advance guys - Paul