When It Rains, It Pours

And when it's gasoline, it's NOT fun.

Last night, Tom put my front end up on jackstands and wiped off the bottom of the gas tank. I rewarded his cleaning with a small stream of gas raining down from a pin-hole on the passenger side of the bottom of the tank. He stopped the flow with a well-placed paper towel held up with the jack. After getting some JB Weld to plug the tiny hole, he brushed off the area around the hole to make sure that the epoxy would stick, and all of a sudden, he had a dozen small streams of gas pouring down from a dozen pin-holes. He used a board and a larger rag to staunch the flow while he pumped out gas from the tank through the filler. After getting most of the gas out, he jacked up the passenger side of the car to get the gas to the good side of the tank. All that gas was a great degreaser, so the surface was all ready for a liberal application of Gas Tank Sealer. The rest of my tank seems solid. I guess that that area had collected moisture once and started to rust.