Well I finally posted pics of my tank I made last year. I sincerely apologized to all of you who asked me to do so months ago. My truck has actually beeen washed twice since then but as you'll see is very dirty again; been doing a lot of pig hunting every weekend.

Secondly I apologized to raptor who asked for the part number on my Intl. Emblems...1A 3550901C1

 

Do you just fill up the aux tank and not remove your fuel cap? Been thinking about building my own due to weird size requirements with the boxes I have in my bed. Thanks for posting the pics.

 

Thats how all the ones I see work. They just gravity feed into the o.e.m fuel neck. I guess if you run the stock tank down you would want to fill it up, then fill the aux tank. Im looking at building one as well. Something smaller, around 35 gallons or so.

 

I will leave it on while I travel and it just drains as I go along. When I see the main gauge dropping then I know the aux. is empty. In the summer the heat expansion makes it drain faster than the winter. I installed it so I don't have to pull into gas stations with my 27' tt, that stresses me out. With this I can go get fuel after I get to a campground.

 

sorry, no I don't remove the fuel cap but removing it does speed up the process...on a warm day it'll fill the main tank in 30 to 45 minutes without removing the cap.

 

Cool, thanks for the info and the pics.

 

Great post thanks. I will see if we can get this thread in the tech folder.

 

Let me know then maybe I can get you some more details, numbers etc. Sorry the pics are so bad...kinda hard to take from underneath.

 

Pics were pretty clear to me. What did the material cost you for everything BTW?

 

I submitted it to Admin for review.

 

Boy thats tough :the aluminum was expensive; I want to say close to 400. I used smooth because diamond plate was too expensive. Th3 bottom and sides are 7/16" or close to half inch for tapping the outlet. Plus remember it has baffles (3) inside too. The cap was 20 and the fliter, hoses, valve and such was close to 70-80. I know it was expensive but it was custom fit. It weighs about 75 lbs.

 

I also listed an example calculation in the pic comments for calculating the gallons if you want to measure out an area. I didn't include for material thickness, but I think you can figure that out.

 

Absolutely let’s get it in the Tech folder, damn nice job on the tank

 

This thread is now linked in the 6.0 Tech Forum.

Double kudos again to bczolone...

 

i dont see any pics?

and why not use 1/8th inch and weld in bungs ??