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Subject:Re: 85 liter fuel tank
From:Rob
Date:Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:59:38 -0700

At  9/6/2006 05:15 PM, Robert Fisher 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.

My '83 Dodge van had a plastic gas tank sitting there like any metal
one would. The only difference between that tank and the others on
the used cars I bought while in Chicagoland was that it was NOT rusted out.

Rob
becida@comcast.net

With a '91 Subaru 2.2 in an '87 Vanagon in western Washington.