Here are the pics of my old fuel tank closeout plate next to the new SS one. Disgusting!

Well I finally got my fuel tank out, boy was that a challenge in itself. After about 5 hours of trying to figure out how exactly it would come out with the coolant hoses I finally got it. Here are the pics.

Check out all the rust I have to deal with. Its a good thing I removed the fuel tank or else it would be impossible to fix this part of the frame.

A lot of this part of the frame was lost due to too much rust. Once I got it sanded I coated it with a product called Tremclad, similar to POR-15 in the U.S.

Here is this section basically recoated and done.

This is starting to look much better.