At  9/25/2006 08:49 AM,JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:
>i took a junk vanagon gas tank to my local welder and he thinks he can do
>this..  i cut the tanks open, clean them out thoroughly, let them dry, and he
>will weld them.   if it is a sucess, would there be any interest in these?   i
>have a number of good gas tanks here that i could do this to..
>
>basically we are talking about cutting the gas tank open on the top at the
>perimeter of the "saddle" depression, and welding in new metal to replace the
>area of the "saddle" (that vw should have eliminated with the demise of the
>aircooled vanagon), therefore increasing fuel capacity of the stock 2wd tank.
>
>anyone interested?
>
>chris

It sounds to me like a good idea and I am interested. I am still
wondering about how much fuel gain there will be from this. I'd love
to go for the +20 L tank but $500 is way too steep for the gain (at
least for my wallet).

I have not had the tank out yet so I'm picturing this from the last
time I was under there. Call it half a cylinder of "X" diameter by
how ever long the tank is. Anyone have a tank handy to do some
measurements? Maybe the tunnel is not really "half a cylinder"?

Rob
becida@comcast.net

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