Reply To: Hi from Australia
G’day Nick1. Nice bike. Love that colour. What is the name of the Dealership you use? It is good they still help you. I can only buy parts from HyosungAU. No dealer here will even look at my bike. They won’t help with simple questions & they hold Hyosungs in such little regard, it makes me want to break-in to their shop at night & wheel some stuff out. I buy parts from HyosungAU mostly & they are ok. Got a couple of wrong parts but they refunded me. I’d love a dealer & a mechanic to look at it when i can’t be bothered. It’s been hot here. https://www.hyosungpartsau.com/ (Genuine parts to your door) The rust in the tank is easy to fix. My GT250R also had rust. I’m yet to fix it as there are more important issues with the bike, like NO FRONT BRAKES. Just fixed that; riding is much more fun when you can stop the bike. I will do a photo tutorial of rust removal someday. Take the tank off, empty the fuel out & temporarily SEAL-UP any place the fuel can drain out from under tank, (fuel petcock). Pour a mixture of water (i’ll use distilled/demineralised water) & a pH Increaser (used for swimming pools) into the tank; fill it to the near the top of your fuel cap hole. Then connect a BATTERY, like a car battery, to the tank & to a piece of metal like a big allen key or steel rod, (that is small enough to fit INSIDE the tank WITHOUT TOUCHING the metal of the tank). You suspend this allen key in non-conducting material, over the fuel cap hole, so the metal is touching the solution isnide the tank but not the tank itself, (will advise on postive & negative location, i can’t recall). Once the battery is connected correctly, current will flow through the solution in the tank & ALL THE RUST will leave the WALLS of the TANK & attach itself to the sacrificial allen key or steel rod that is inserted into the fuel tank. If your rust is heavy it may take all night & a reapeat with clean solution & maybe a fresh allen key. If your rust is not that bad this process will only take 2 hours to 3 hours i think. To keep the car battery from running flat, connect a battery charger to the battery for the duration of the process. CAUTION! Don’t leave this running without checking on it. The solution starts to bubble & there will be movement in the solution. The biggest danger is the metal rod or Allen Key touching the metal of the tank, which will spark & make the fuel tank live. So you can get a zap from it. Good idea to KEEP MONITIORING IT & to DISCONNECT the NEGATIVE LEAD from the battery before you touch the tank.
Thanks Laserbeam, I use Les Penna Motorcycles in Bendigo, Victoria.
I will give this a go, thanks for the info.