I have been looking for a replacement gas tank for my 1983 RX7 GSL. It is like trying to find a unicorn. Does anyone has any suggestions?
Thanks.
Doug (Brooklyn)

 

I would suggest creating a want to buy ad in the marketplace section. Chances are someone here on the forum has one available that they can sell and ship to you.

 

OK -- thanks for the 'heads up'

 

Best of luck in your search for a tank. They are without a doubt getting harder to find these days.

 

You can buy them new but they're over $600.

 

No connection, but there is an ad (posted 6/16) in the F/S section for parting out an 83 GSL, including a fuel tank.

 

Just be glad you don't have an SA. Those tanks are NLA and hard to find if you need one.

 

Is the one you have now beyond repair?

A good tank shop should be able to refinish it for you to be as good as new. Unless it has holes rusted through it or other damage.

Chances are any replacement you find will need a similar process done to it anyway. Can't imagine any ~40 year old fuel tank still be trustworthy.

The previous owner of my car had this done, I think for around $400.

 

My mechanic had someone look at it but not sure why they did not proceed with the restoration of the tank as it definitely does not have holes in it.

Thanks for the reco. Six kids -- wow. Enjoy your weekend, kids and cars :-)

Doug

 

Where? I would gladly have paid $600 for a tank for my '81.

 

The tanks cannot be given an internal coating because of the way the pickup tube is laid out. I've seen fuel tanks destroyed by being sealed, because the pickup tube got plugged solid.

 

I'm about to head down the path of trying to clean up my gas tank (also an '83 GSL btw) -- do you have any more details on this issue? Or pointers to threads I should check out?
I've searched quite a bit and didn't see any mention of issues with sealer and the pickup tube? On an '83 I'm pretty sure the pickup tubes are removable, and I assume would be removed prior to cleaning and sealing.
Any pointers greatly appreciated! Thanks.

EDIT - after further searching and reading it appears the '83 tank does not in fact have removable pickup tubes, so I guess that would be the issue with sealing these tanks? Is there no way to safely "mask off" the tubes during the resealing? I'm just trying to get a plan in place for dealing with my tank prior to actually dropping it. Again, thanks for any pointers...

 

It's internal to the tank and no real way to access it.

You might be able to do something like unbraze the tube and then rebraze it, but I do not think the sealer operation would allow you to rebraze.

 

I think it can be restored without an internal coating. My 82 tank is OEM and has the brazed in pickup, return, and vent lines.

The inside is clean shiny metal, not sure how they do it but think it is some sort of chemical dip. The outside is then coated in a black epoxy type of coating, just the areas for hoses to clamp on and the sending unit mount were masked off.

I have seen those 'restoration kits' where you slosh a coting around to encapsulate all the old crap in the tank to make it "new" and I wouldn't really trust that.

 

Get out the balloon catheter. I'm joking, mostly, but that's exactly what you need.



Google tells me it's a "Temporary Occlusion Balloon Catheter"