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MChad, clean up your sender and tank gasket surfaces and use this product on your new gasket (permashield), just follow the instructions. Your float will never get stuck again if you use this gasket dressing/sealer. Also get new mounting screws, they are a sealing type of screw and are a one time use only. Yes you could try to reuse, but why gamble.:
I used a PDR for my Dyna tank. It came with a small ding but that ding always bugged me. When I took it to him, he showed me two other dings I did not even know I had until he pointed them out. He does cars and bikes, does all the work for the Harley dealers in the area.
He has a custom built stand that is bolted to the floor. Multiple interchangeable brackets to solidly mount all kinds of different tanks, and the stand could rotate, tilt, and pivot the tank. Pretty slick set up. It's a true talent being able to work those dents out. I was impressed. Think I paid like 125, and that included a nice buffing and wax.
One little side note, the working of the dent will probably cause the old and brittle factory liner inside the tank to flake and peel. So something to watch for.
Other than that, would not hesitate to take it back to him if anything else happens. Just gotta ask around on "who is the guy?" When multiple people say the same name, you gotta listen.
Anybody in Michigan who is looking, this is your guy (Bob):
Thanks Yank! (I feel like a Brit) funny you mentioned the liner. It’s already happening. When I was maneuvering out the sender I heard a rattle as I moved the tank. I grabbed my handy $40 endoscope from Amazon and saw bits of liner. Pulled out all this:
Yes, spend some time fishing out any debris flaking off inside your tank. It will eventually plug the petcock screen and reduce your fuel flow. It's a PITA, I did two sets of split tanks in the shop this winter. Pick up a set of long hemostats - 10" worked good for me. I used the nuts and bolts shaking method to start, went thru several cycles pulling out bits of liner. I fashioned a piece of flexible copper tubing to the air compressor nozzle and shot high pressure air into the areas away from the fill neck, then back to the nuts and bolts. Keep pulling out fragments until your satisfied there aren't any more hat will flake off easily. When you get bigger pieces use both hemostats to grab them when you pull them out of the neck, if you use one the brittle liner can break and fall back into the tank. I rinsed it several times with soapy water then used alcohol at the end to help any residual water followed by the air nozzle again. We did not re-coat the tank with a liner at the owners request.
I'd stay away from anything corrosive for cleaning because it can remove enough rust to cause pinholes to start leaking. I learned this the hard way trying to clean out heavily rusted and scaled water lines - wound up replacing all the lines.
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