How to clean out gas tank on 48 DeSoto?

[MarcDeSoto]

I got the gas tank finished by the radiator shop, and Sniper that's just what they did.  They had to cut the top of the tank open to access the Oilite filter which was rusted to a pulp!  You can see what's left of it to the left of the first pic.  They permanentally removed it and I am glad they did.  Since most of you have probably never seen what it looks like, I took a couple of pics of the rusted out thing.  I'm glad they didn't just mask it and leave it in!  The inside was coated with Redcote and they said the pickup tube is in the right place.  It looks good but a bit too glossy, but who cares.  

Edited October 2, 2021 by MarcDeSoto

[Sniper]

That is pretty crusty looking, good thing you have it removed.  did they extend the pickup tube to make up for the loss?  Don;t forget to add a filter before the carb as the oilite pickup was the filter originally.

[MarcDeSoto]

I didn't ask them that.  I just asked them if the pickup tube was in the right place and he said yes, so I guess I won't know till I get this beast running.  This was a shop that said that they do at least a gas tank a week, so they had some experience.  No wonder that the guys who said their tanks didn't work after trying to clean them out and not removing the filter.  That filter probably has to go on most tanks, unless they have NOS replacements.