I repainted the tank on my little brothers 1980 Z50R.
When I went to go fill up the tank I spilled a little bit of gas and the paint came right off!!!!! Now I have to use paint remover and get all the rest of the paint off to paint it again!!
Is their a paint that will not come off when gas gets on it???
PS: I am using spraypaint
Thanks

 

yea us better paint lol

 

Hondapride~ Try this:

Sand the gas tank first, then use a good primer, then lightly sand again.
Then spray a lite coat on first, let dry for at least a few hours. Spray a few more
coats with light wet sanding between coats. Don't sand after your final coat.

Good Luck and make sure you allow the paint to fully dry between coats and after before adding fuel.

 

hey newdslover how did you get to be qaud patrol? i have only herd of pro rider,weekend worier,and trail blazer,?

 

i'm pretty sure that quad patrol means forum moderator.

as for the paint, buy a can of header paint...sometimes callled 2000 degree paint, or high temp. paint.....you get the idea. they have almost any color. i had to get the exhuast on my polaris welded, and i painted it with that, and it held up great!!! i even clean it with gas to get all that baked on mud off, and the paint stays!!

Your local auto parts store will have it

 

and the new gas-o-hol fuel really eats paint bad, took the paint off my toyotas fuel door... found normal strait (cheveron) fuel is much less harmful

 

Whatever you do don't wait a few hours between paint layers. I could go into how to paint a car here but I won't. I will assume you are using a spray bomb (can). If the tank is metal, you must use a etching primer to get the proper bite in the metal, then the paint will have something to adhear to. Stay with the same brand and type of paint, don't mix laquer, enamel, or polyeurthane. Wait for each coat to flash of, meaning for the solvents to leave the coat, and be hand slick, or kinda dry. About 10 minutes. Apply however many coats you need, but do it all in one sitting. Next thing I would suggest is use a quality paint, even though it is a small area go to your local Napa store that carries paint supplys and they have tons of decent paint in rattle cans, get the appropriate primer and a solvent to clean the tank off before shooting anything.