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CASE-IHC Paint and gasoline

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jimisler

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Each time I"ve painted with "official" paints, it seems that the smallest amount of gas spilled eats up the paint. What do I paint over it to prevent that? original equipment doesn"t curl up that quickly.
 
Did you put a good clear coat? I paint my tractors with paint from carquest. It's IH red and anti rust. So far it's pretty durable stuff and it's hadgas and oil on it with no problem
 
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest, though you were not specific as to what you were using....

cheap paint?
 
Gas will always damage paint, unless it is fully cured, then I would still wipe it off. Best to keep it off the paint. You can do that with careful filling of the tank. If it leaks out the cap, and you have the old style, get the newer tall cap, and don't fill the tank all the way if it still leaks. The "official" paint (2150, I assume) is a form of alkyd enamel, easily damaged. Urethanes including clear coat are better, but gas needs to be removed quickly. The clear on new cars is rather hard to damage, but it is baked on. I still wipe it off.
 

He used the enamel I.H paint and hardner from the dealer for I.H tractors.

It is costly because I.H sells it , but i have noticed the same thing that gas effects it.

I painted a Cub several years back with all the correct stuff and mixtures. It has a couple areas that gas has caused the paint to peal.


Good question , i don't know who makes this paint but it isn't cheap ..
 
(quoted from post at 02:25:15 10/06/10)
He used the enamel I.H paint and hardner from the dealer for I.H tractors.

It is costly because I.H sells it , but i have noticed the same thing that gas effects it.

I painted a Cub several years back with all the correct stuff and mixtures. It has a couple areas that gas has caused the paint to peal.


Good question , i don't know who makes this paint but it isn't cheap ..
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It must depend on which Case-IH dealer you go to. I have bought the 2150 from my local dealer, and it didn't cost a whole lot more than the Van-Sickle brand from the local farm store.
 
I don"t know anything about paint but way back when our tractors with original paint would get gasoline on tank around cap most every day for years without damaging paint.
 
How long after painting did you spill the gas?

Traditional enamel paint takes MONTHS to cure completely. Even with hardener.

The paint forms a "skin" on top, but underneath it's still liquid. That skin causes the curing process to slow down because air can't get to the liquid paint.

If you can still smell paint fumes, it's not fully cured even though it's dry to the touch.

Modern epoxy paints don't need air to cure, and are hard within minutes.
 
We need to use the term "epoxy" for primer. Modern urethane paints with hardener do NOT cure within minutes. It takes a minimum of several days, and I wouldn't trust them for a couple of months. I had an accidental spill on about 2 week old urethane -- funnel slipped -- it damaged the paint. Immediately wiped off and polished, got most of it out, not all.
 
We painted our SMV-TA wih Sherwin-Williams Genesis
an acrylic urethane- great expensive paint 7 years ago. Todays gasoline has "cleaning agents" in it to help modern fuel injection systems. I'm sure that is what undid a perfect "cured" paint job in our case. One solution is to keep your fuel bowl tight and when storing your tractor a coffee can is cheap insurance in case it leaks.
 
I thought of that too. In the 50's we fueled with a hand pump in a 55 gallon barrel until the tank ran over. In those days we really never thought about the paint -- I bet it did damage it, though.
 
Maybe so as you say no one really cared but I polished my 1987 Chevrolet truck that I bought new yesterday and can see no difference in paint around fuel tank door that I have spilled gasoline on hundreds of times.
 
We have been filling our 1966 140 (original paint) from 5gal. cans for 44 years and spills happen more often than not. It definitely affects the original paint. She soldiers on anyway.
 
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