A small puncture from a sharp edged tool was accidently made into the top of my gas tank on my Escort GT enduro race car. A friend did it trying to help me make a mounting point for a racing harness while I wasn't watching him.
I didn't know the tank was made out of plastic at first and thought the plastic was just something between the car floor and the tank and started cutting at it with knife. It's tough stuff and luckily soon figured it out before much more damage. A search of the internet showed reports of using a soldering iron to melt the plastic back together. I have one and that's what I used. It held up to a 100 lap race in the hot sun. I took off the gas tank cap after the race and the gas fumes where under pressure as normal. I don't know if Proteges etc have plastic tanks or not.
I didn't know the tank was made out of plastic at first and thought the plastic was just something between the car floor and the tank and started cutting at it with knife. It's tough stuff and luckily soon figured it out before much more damage. A search of the internet showed reports of using a soldering iron to melt the plastic back together. I have one and that's what I used. It held up to a 100 lap race in the hot sun. I took off the gas tank cap after the race and the gas fumes where under pressure as normal. I don't know if Proteges etc have plastic tanks or not.
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