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Outrage 50-90-Nitro > Worn fuel tank?

JAy jordan2
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Location: Cincinnati, OH

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Anyone have the area on their fuel tank where it meets the rubber grommets be worn?

The bottom rear of my tank where the grommets meet the tank has a groove worn in the tank. Not all the way through, but you can see a hole worn about 1/4 -1/2 way through the tank. I was wondering if I could put shoe goo or epoxy to fill in the worn area in the tank?

This is on a used V50.
Thanks,
JAy

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10-26-2009 01:19 AM

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hotshot tony
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Location: Shepherdsville, KY US

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Pop them off and ca them forward or backwards, witch ever way they get a new bite

And wua la like a new tank.

Never did it before but I know it will work.

10-26-2009 01:04 PM

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hotshot tony
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The good fix

http://www.helidirect.com/outrage-o...sort=2a&op=list

10-26-2009 02:38 PM

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dashpilot
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Location: Norfolk, VA

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Is anyone running a header tank on your Vel 50? I rigged one up but can't get it tight enough.. progably going to scrap the idea.. anyone have pics or ideas?

"what comes up must come down"....softly of course

10-29-2009 08:57 PM

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Mapleleafs
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Location: Ontario, Canada

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nope....never felt like it needed a header tank.

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10-29-2009 09:02 PM

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JAy jordan2
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Location: Cincinnati, OH

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Ended up getting a new tank, but keeping the old one as a spare. I put 5 min epoxy over the worn areas and filled it until it was flush with the rest of the tank.

I got my velocity used and it had a header tank on it. A long 3 mm grubscrew was used in the lower bearing block with an extra frame spacer to attach a QuickUK header tank on it.

JAy

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10-30-2009 12:52 PM

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LongVu78
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Location: Andover Ma

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Header Tank

Works great, I don't know if I need it or not on the Velocity, but I have to get one anyway, safe better than sorry.