Exterior Tank Rust

[audiowize]

Today I started on the process of changing the color of my 2014 to Sandstone. The new tank I got didn't come with the quick edge trim, and I'm glad it didn't!

This is off an 8,000 mile bike, but it is ten years old at least.

I plan to brush all this off, tape both tanks off, then raptor liner over where the quick edging is supposed to go. Bed liner shouldn't trap water like that trim does. For all I know this could have been caused by excessive bike washing...

 

[Sierra1]

. . . . For all I know this could have been caused by excessive bike washing...

Or it could have come from somewhere with crappy wet weather. Oh . . . . wait. I still remember when I was in school in Kennewick WA. There was a chapter in history class that talked about an English explorer that sent a message back to England. It a said that the "weather was not fit for man nor beast." I thought that was saying something, considering England's weather.

 

[audiowize]

With 8000 miles on the odometer in ~10 years, that can't be much rain exposure.

 

[Sierra1]

That's not much rust either.

 

[audiowize]

That's what they all say till the gas leaks out

 

[Sierra1]

I'm not saying not to fix it, but it's mainly just surface rust. Easy, peazy, lemon squeezy.

 

[audiowize]

I dealt with the rust present on the tank I'm swapping on. This tank came off a bike with less than 500 miles and had plenty of corrosion under the quick edge. I also noticed a fair amount of the paint under the quick edge was poorly adhered and just fell off when I touched it. I would imagine this could be done and the quick edge could just go right back on over the bed liner, but I'll probably leave it as-is.