Reported what I thought was a coolant leak (no smell of diesel etc) at the beginning of the week, fitter checked it out and said it wasn’t loosing coolant so just keep an eye on it? Leaving the yard today (Friday) at the end of my shift and I noticed a fuel new tank waiting to be fitted to my motor. Nobody has mentioned anything about it loosing fuel but it looks to me like they are going to fit the new tank over the weekend without saying anything, time will tell! Thing is they have likely sent me out knowing it had a diesel leak at the beginning of the week.
A leaking tank will spray diesel all over the chassis and down the trailer and you would be able to smell it as soon as you were around the vehicle so I would guess there is no leak
If it was leaking diesel you’d know about it…
You are right of course and I didn’t smell diesel. Never-the-less the tank is being replaced for some reason. Considering the cost and time involved what else would warrant it being replaced other than a leak?
global:
You are right of course and I didn’t smell diesel. Never-the-less the tank is being replaced for some reason. Considering the cost and time involved what else would warrant it being replaced other than a leak?
A bit of corrosion, some damage which has weakened it but not caused failure yet. Or perhaps they just wanted a spare tank. It could even be a part sent in error.
The only thing you know is they there was no obvious leak. No harm was done to you. And really you are worrying about stuff (on your time off) which doesn’t concern you. (I know I’m responding to this - but I’m just drinking tea getting ready for work tonight).
global:
You are right of course and I didn’t smell diesel. Never-the-less the tank is being replaced for some reason. Considering the cost and time involved what else would warrant it being replaced other than a leak?
Let us know next week … after your new tank has been installed,
that is if it’s yours !!!
But most importantly… Is it a shiny tank?
As a motorbikerist I wouldn’t ever criticise anyone for taking either real or potential diesel leaks seriously.
It’s not one of those ally tanks with the AdBlue part of it is it?
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If so it could be the AdBlue that was leaking thus the reason for the whole tank getting replaced?
It just saves you having to polish the tank, send the old one off and it’ll be all shiny. Well I’m sure some people would go that far even if not the op! 
Own Account Driver:
As a motorbikerist I wouldn’t ever criticise anyone for taking either real or potential diesel leaks seriously.
Too right…I’ve fallen on diesel, and been run over. I thought I was going to die, but thanks to a decent set of boots was just a bit bruised (got everything out of the way except my legs).
That was bad.
But what was far, far worse, was going back to the scene and finding that a car had skidded on the same diesel , and hit a guy on a motorbike coming the other way. He was riding a bike that I had sold him. He was stuck under the car. There’s a line in an early Bruce Springsteen song…“That ain’t oil, that’s blood.” and the horrible moment when I realised what an easy mistake that is to make in the dark.
And what was far, far worse than that, was the guy’s brother and father coming into my shop the next day and having to sit down with them and sort out who he was insured with, who he had credit with etc, while the lad was in a coma in an ICU. And after handing out tea and sympathy carrying on with just another day at work in the showroom.
And what was far, far, far worse than that was finding out that the lad never came round, and slipped away a couple of months after.
So there’s no such thing as a minor or unimportant diesel leak.
Have you ever had your foot slip off the brake pedal due to diesel under foot and the first you know about it is a couple of meters short of an impact. Now that’s enough to send anyone’s sphincter into a spasm!
And PLEASE STOP brimming your tanks.
I’ve had 2 biker mates brought off by diesel on the roundabout directly outside a big hauliers yard.
Ridden bikes all my life and hit diesel a fair few times, somehow managed to stay on, albeit with world qualifying gymnastic displays 
Last one was in the Pyrenees this May, diesel all over the road and it was monsoon rain with thunder & lightning and only 9 degrees!..I was on a fully loaded Harley, it was no fun as I danced, skated all over the road in and around HGV`s on both sides 
I finally came to a van, that had turned itself into a jigsaw against the concrete wall built to stop you falling a few hundred feet…I was just happy to get to the top of that mountain, not once did I smell the diesel, which is unusual, but I did see the rainbow colours on the road surface.