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Subject:Re: 85 liter fuel tank
From:BenT Syncro
Date:Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:45:57 -0700

On 9/6/06, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
>
> While we're on the subject... I was at a boneyard and saw a bunch of tanks
> that had been removed from pickup trucks, some metal and some plastic.
> Many
> of them seemed to be of an optimum size to put under the Vgon as an
> auxiliary tank. I assume the plastic ones were useable in their respective
> vehicles because they were encased in the body metal and wouldn't work for
> this application. Are there any reasons that one of those shallow
> rectangular metal tanks couldn't be mounted under the van as a second
> tank?
> How would one plumb it together, for instance if you didn't want a second
> filler tube, etc. and just wanted the two tanks to share lines? Any
> thoughts?
>
> Robert

You can run a transfer pump the same way they set-up the SA auxiliary tanks.

BenT