After much trepidation on my part, I finally pulled the trigger and fay sealed the ribs in the first tank. I cleaned and roughed up all parts then masked off the areas where the ribs went. I removed one at a time and applied a bead of sealant on the rib and the tank skin, smoothing it out with a popsicle stick. Then with Reva on the bottom side with a cleco in the most foward hole, I slide the rib into place over the cleco she had started in the hole. Then I put a cleco in the most foward hole on the top. She then proceeded to put clecos in all the holes with her pneumatic cleco gun while I removed and cleaned the next rib. We continued this process until finished. I then mixed up a little more sealant and attempted to make nice fillets between the ribs and the skins. It worked very well except where the stiffners were and the tank filler flange. Those parts look okay and I don't think they will leak, but it was harder to do. As you can see, I placed some 100 mph tape over the open end where the ribs were, just to take a little of the stress off the top clecos.A couple of points to note:35 cc's of base and 3.5 cc's of activator is good for three ribs.The pneumatic cleco gun is definately worth the money. It makes the job so much easier.Now to wait for a day or two for the sealant to cure some, then I'll go back and wet rivet all the ribs. The temps have been a little cool here lately so I've turned the heat on in the shop tonite to try to help the curing along. I need to rivet them before Wednesday as I'm going out of town and won't be back until Sunday.
