Found a rattie set of Twin LP38's rooting around in the boss's gear locker. I'm told they were left outside for a few years which explains the corrosion on the outside. I took the old Sportsways pack, harness and bands off. Interestingly, The Sportsways pack/harness has the same profile as a pretty good shape Kam EZ pack I have laying around without anything to do - so I'm going to drill a hole (which is already marked) in the Kam EZ for my tank band carriage bolt and spacer assembly - that's going to work out pretty well - all I had to do was pull off the single tank cam buckle thingie.
I disassembled the Sportsways manifold and noted bad o rings but the seat looks corrosion free and in really good shape.
1.) Do I need to do anything besides a good ultrasound cleaning and replace the o rings in the manifold?
2.) Tank neck o rings - just clean the threads and get new o rings? The o ring groove in the tank neck looks fine.
I peeked inside the tanks with a light and don't see any corrosion at all besides a tiny orange spot in one about the size of a grain of rice. I see no pitting.
3.) These look to me to be 3/4 straight pipe threads? That would be good news.
My plan is to get this set in the water again so I thought I'd have them tumbled, bead blasted, hydro'd and stickered.
Maybe its the amount of corrosion around the tank shoulders but I don't see any markings besides - : 8 @ 81
4 o 76
4 02 90 ( on both tanks )
What do you guys suggest for coating the outside? I'm thinking in order of cost 1.) Chrome 2.) Flame spray 3.) Hot dip galvanized 4.) Powder coat 5.) Tractor paint.
I'm leaning toward chrome if my guy can make the $$$ somewhat reasonable. Flame Spray looks bad a$$ and tractor paint is just OG cool. Course, a very cool powder coating color works for me too - like Mint Julep or Root Beer maybe -
Thanks