Installing a Vinyl Tank Boot

[Spitts6654]

Need some help installing a vinyl tank boot. Do you have to heat them up to stretch them out or is there another trick?

 

[Tortuga68]

Hot water?

 

[cb5150]

Dish soap & warm water

 

[chrpai]

Unless it's a steel tank or you are going on a boat that requires them, why bother at all?

 

[Spitts6654]

I have been diving out of a friends boat and I don't want to be the guy that knocks a chunk of fiberglass out of the boat with my tanks.

---------- Post added March 22nd, 2013 at 11:24 PM ----------

I was thinking hot water and soap might do the trick!

 

[al248005]

I usually let mine soak in hot water for a couple hours to get them pliable and squirt a pinch of soap and they should slip right on. If you try to do it with out the boot being warm there's a good chance you'll put a crack in the side of it if u force it on.

 

[Spitts6654]

Thanks guys, soaked them in some hot water, put a little soap around the bottom of the tank and they slid right on!

 

[spectrum]

You now have the ultimate salt collector and corrosion nest. Those vinyl boots have a way of letting bad things happen. Plan on regular removal for cleaing and inspection or better yet replace it with a good self draining boot.

Pete