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Diesel fuel tanks

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:( Recently bought a 1990 T3 Westfalia Atlantic high-top 1600 turbo diesel in Leipzig, Germany. Managed to drive it home to Hertfordshire, although the engine was leaking oil quite badly. I've now got this sorted, but I've now discovered a leak on the fuel tank that started when I put a full tank of diesel in. Wasn't showing when I had less than half a tankfull. The seller obviously knew about the leak, which is why the tank was on the red when he sold it to me :x

Is it worth repairing, or can anyone here please recommend the best place to buy a replacement fuel tank at a reasonable price - thanks,
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Hi 155td.

Got underneath the vehicle, knowing that the leak is obviously coming from somewhere near the top of the tank, but gave up trying to figure out where it was coming from. I had to take it for an MOT test in order to get the vehicle re-registered in the UK and the leaking fuel tank was one of the things it failed on. The tester did say that it could be leaking from where the filler neck enters the tank and that he might be able to repair it (is this problem a common one?). I left all the failure problems with him to sort out........never mind, I bought the camper cheaply anyway :)
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I think Baxter has new tanks on the shelf.
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Ok cheers for that. Did a search and found their brickwerks.co.uk website. Gonna have a look right now :)
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Tanks are notoriuosly bad for rusting, I had to replace the one on my 86 diesel Westy. There was no obvious leak, think that water had gotten underneath the sealant covering the tank and just made it very porous.

You can get a new tank off the shelf at GSF for £60ish quid
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On the top where you can't see it, or some of the fuel balance tank pipework...
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owlets wrote:Tanks are notoriuosly bad for rusting, I had to replace the one on my 86 diesel Westy. There was no obvious leak, think that water had gotten underneath the sealant covering the tank and just made it very porous.

You can get a new tank off the shelf at GSF for £60ish quid

I think the same thing has happened with the diesel tank on my 90 Westy. Got underneath with a high powered torch but in the end gave up trying to figure out where the leak was coming from. Had a look in the just kampers calalogue and you can buy one for less than £100 incl vat, so not worth repairing. I will get a price from GSF though. Thanks for the advice :)
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