I know they have support but how did he get to where the truck is to drive it home?
That would be his support but being he in not a wrench makes it a vary bad trip when he breaks down ans cant fix it.
Even Road Kill has left some cars behind with notes and keys to have fun with it so if it was gone before they got back to it no big lost LOL

I think no tell is how most get to use a trailer.
A dolly will work as a buddy dragged 2 bulls home that way all be it short beds.
Just have to watch out for old tires that are on the ground..
If they go bad you have the 2 up front but they are just as old.
Dave ----

 

You are drastically over-thinking this temporary fuel tank business.

Get yourself a lidded 5-gallon bucket, like hydraulic fluid or engine oil comes in --- make sure the bucket originally contained some sort of petroleum product, thus no rinsing or cleaning of the bucket will be necessary.

Get yourself one of those simple inline $10 electric fuel pumps that Amazon has about a hundred vendors selling the exact same pump --- get two or three --- ten bucks apiece.

Reason for getting more than one is if one happens to crap out on you halfway home.

Also, you can connect several of these end-to-end; and, if one craps out, you will never know and just keep on rolling.

I will vouch for those pumps as it is unlikely you will get a bad one and they do pump and pump well.

Using a known clean bucket and new lines and pump, there is no need for any sort of filter --- none whatsoever.

The gas pump at the station has a far better filter within the pump than anything available to us mere mortals --- besides, it is a gas-burner = not much filthy fuel can hurt --- it will go through that 460 like a fire hose with no time to matter anyhow.

Seeing as you are going so far, maybe replace the five-gallon bucket with a 55-gallon oil drum that new clean oil came in; sometimes, you can find thirty gallon barrels.

Or, just carry a few extra five-gallon cans.

Plenty of Gates fuel hose.


My main concern is if the thing has stupid steel belted radial tires and has sat for any length of time --- and, how long were the tires on there before it was parked; a truck with 3-yr-old tires that has been sitting three years has 6-yr-old tires and they are ready to fly apart and shed their skins like a snake --- it matters not if the tread is an inch deep and they look good --- a radial tire that is five or more years old is subject to go all to pieces at any moment, many do so sitting out in the back yard --- I myself have two brand-new old radials on two different vehicles that have recently blown apart just sitting parked and wrapped rusty wire all around everything.

A truck with radial tires, no matter how new, is not a bargaining point for me; I am not interested regardless of how recent they were put on nor how deep the tread; radial tires have no value to me other than to keep the corners of the vehicle level and move it around the place.

An acquaintance recently bought a SRW truck and heavy utility trailer at an estate auction a hundred or so miles from home; he blew seven of the eight radial tires to shreds before he got it driven home; he had every loose spare truck wheel that could be mustered and a neighbor took the four off his trailer and took them to him to get him home.


Enough about that...., back to the truck --- I would be tempted to disconnect the Draw Line and electrics from the emptiest tank and poke my fuel pump line down the fuel filler neck and put my gas in the tank.


We go way out and buy and bring home all sorts of trucks, many really old by most people's standards; and, if the engine will start and the wheels roll, we drive them as far as they will come --- most often making it all the way in.

Many of them will splutter and jerk and rattle and run like crap for the first few miles; and, the farther we get, the better they run, until they are running really well the rest of the way in.

Belts and hoses can be rotten as crap and still last a very long time --- all frayed and crackledy, with loose strings flopping about.

Usually old age and wear isn't what gets a belt, but some rotating device that locks up and slings the belt.

Take a couple quarts of DOT 3 Brake Fluid just in case.

I have log-chained them home farther than you are talking about; so, you aren't looking at any hill for a climber.