Petrol Tank

[Waldo]

Unknown to me the overfill/breather pipe in my tank got blocked, result it froze and split. I now cant fill my tank over half (still dangerous I know). Does anyone know if this can be repared (Honda say no, I need a new tank at £450) but they would would'nt they)

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Thanks

[Lumiya]

You can get it welded, especially if the split is on a seam.. if it's a very very small split then you could always PETSEAL the tank

[AlanH]

Petseal won't work on a breather pipe has split inside the tank.

The best solution would be to take it to a specialist to have the old tube cut out and a new one brazed in. The tank will need to be purged of all vapour beforehand otherwise it will make a very large bang as soon as an oxy torch gets anywhere near it.

[dogwheel]

Might this be any help? Found it just now on ebay.
"HondaTransalp 650 Fuel Tank" - That's what I typed in, I'm not savvy enough to send the link.
A silver one,"buy it now" for £79
Good luck, whichever way you solve the problem.

[Lutin]

Might this be any help? Found it just now on ebay.
"HondaTransalp 650 Fuel Tank" - That's what I typed in, I'm not savvy enough to send the link.
A silver one,"buy it now" for £79
Good luck, whichever way you solve the problem.

This one?

HONDA XL 650 TRANSALP FUEL TANK IN SILVER XL650 PETROL on eBay (end time 12-Jan-10 17:07:16 GMT)

[dogwheel]

Yessiree, dat am de won!
How do you do that?
Happy New Year

[Waldo]

Thanks guys

Went for the silver tank on ebay, done the buy now option as need my Alp for work.

Shame its silver as mine is blue, i will however see if I can find a specialist to do the work on the original.

Thanks again.

[Lutin]

Yessiree, dat am de won!
How do you do that?
Happy New Year

Sorry, meant to reply to this earlier. It's my age.........

It is very simple to post a link. All you have to do is highlight whatever is in the address bar of your browser (in Firefox just double click in the address bar), then right click and select copy. Then is the post your are working on. just right click and this time select paste.

Simples.

[Mervinh]

DO NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT PUT THAT PETSEAL ****E IN YOUR TANK

it peels off again and causes more trouble than enough, i know been there and done it 3 times, use a POR15 kit from frost restorations

[Waldo]

One for mervinh,

Will this stuff work on the pipe inside the tank?