Oil Tank & Tool Cover 3

The exposed sides of the tank and cover were painted with about six coats each of black and clear lacquer, hand rubbed after each three coats. This series shows the progression of the final finishing of the tool cover. The tank is used for comparison in all the photos.

After last coat of clear lacquer has dried for a few days, (1) rub down with wet 600 grit, (2) wet 1500 grit, (3) Automotive rubbing compound, (4) automotive polishing compound. You can see that although the tank looks pretty shiny, the reflections in the rubbed cover are more distinct.

Finally some anti-swirl compound and some wax finish the job. Picture on right shows difference between rubbed and unrubbed.

Pop rivet the re-plated detent spring onto the cover.

The tank is mounted on rubber cushions at three points--one at the bottom of the tank, and two at the top.  The battery carrier is also rubber mounted to the frame on one side and to brackets on the oil tank on the other.  Here are all the pieces to the tank and the battery carrier.  All the rubber parts except the battery mat are new.

There is apparently some confusion on the correct dimensions for the tank and cover mounting grommets. The two sizes in the picture were both supplied under the same part number. The larger ones seem to be the correct ones.

On cleaning up the old tank filter fitting, there was this pretty severe corrosion damage on the flare fitting and on the tubing. A new filter is a fairly pricy part, but I got one anyway. The feed pipe is a short piece of 5/16 steel tube with a double flare. It doesn't seem to be available from any of my usual sources, so I made one from a piece of pre-flared steel brake line.

Tank looks pretty shiney...