Dirty Brown Header Tank

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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by helen&tony » Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:47 pm

Hi Steve
That section confirms it...as I said, I thought it was all the way through....but if anyone orders up a batch of new ones....PURLEESE count me in...I can read mine through the plastic, but it's old , like me, and needs a new tank
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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by haydn callow » Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:00 pm

New tanks are available within 10 days for about £130
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Post by Doone » Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:21 pm

You can get one direct from a Mazda main dealer for around that price Helen, so maybe one can be relayed to you next year, when the Bulgaria visit takes place. :wink:
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Post by mikexgough » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:28 pm

Doone wrote:You can get one direct from a Mazda main dealer for around that price Helen, so maybe one can be relayed to you next year, when the Bulgaria visit takes place. :wink:
I wonder what discount there would be on a bulk order of 10 or maybe more....
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Post by mister munkey » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:45 pm

STANIMA wrote: Jus think tank is a natural progression like a fake tan on a man beyond redemption of age when he try to pull a cage of honeys half his age?


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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by haydn callow » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:20 pm

Subject...replacement tanks..
The Delica owners club have located a manufacturer of pattern tanks via Oz...they can get tanks into the U.K. for about £?? each.......the guy who organized it all sells them on at £55'ish and probably makes a tenner a tank.....I have bought quite a few from him which I hoped to sell with a LCA sensor fitted and a alarm....A few club members did do this and there was a couple of very positive write ups on their forum. However the Delica tank has a reputation for splitting around the seal where the two halves join...the result of this is that they have a aversion to drilling any hole at all in any tank.
The point is...if somone looks into this they could get some made and make a few bob for their trouble or do it for the forum.
I've done the coolant dye...UV torches and now the hose clamps so I will pass on this one.
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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by widdowson2008 » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:26 pm

haydn callow wrote: Subject...replacement tanks..
The point is...if somone looks into this they could get some made and make a few bob for their trouble or do it for the forum.
....and, if anyone wants to take Haydns idea up, I'll have the tank drawing done soon to give something to work from
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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by munroman » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:35 pm

Re the discolouration, it seems to be a complaint common among owners of many different vehicles.

I am not sure of the material used for the tank, but where 'yellowing' occurs often Chlorine is involved, for those of you with Polyurethane map cases, you will probably have found them going yellowish over the years, this is due to the presence of Chlorine atoms in the plastic.

Perhaps the chlorine from the tap water is being forced into the plastic, and this subsequently discolours, or the plastic itself is releasing chlorine.

Either way it is a permanent, full thickness discolouration as has been shown already, so keep your nuts where they belong!
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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by widdowson2008 » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:42 am

munroman wrote:

I am not sure of the material used for the tank, Looks and feels like its Nylon (soapy feel) - tough to cut with a hacksaw. Not hard and brittle like some plastics

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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by haydn callow » Fri Aug 13, 2010 9:51 am

No need for a drawing Steve....just send a old tank.
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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by widdowson2008 » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:22 pm

For those who may be interested in being bored out of their brains, and to keep the cooling investigation stuff together (so I can find it without too much trawling), I am posting further tank findings on
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 54#p438654
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Re: Dirty Brown Header Tank

Post by bigdaddycain » Sun Aug 15, 2010 11:11 pm

haydn callow wrote:New tanks are available within 10 days for about £130
You could buy a set of chrome handles for less than that! And they polish up better than a plastic tank! :lol:
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