Auxiliary fuel tank?

Is there an easy to bolt in auxiliary fuel tank for our trucks? I'm trying to increase my truck's range... Since I'll be carrying my spare tire on the bed, I suppose I could use the area where the spare tire used to go.
Thanks,
Mikel

eh, not really. I think Spicer was screwing around with a Bronco tank but I dont' know if he got that to work right or not. I've got a sweet auxiliary tank on my Cherokee, and when I gut everything I'm going to see if it will fit the ambulance.. looks to be a rectangular deal, bolts in where the spare goes... No idea what the 715's look like underneath but something similar might work just fine.... just fine.... hehe.

After looking in the book a while back, I found that it would be possible to put a 25 gallon tank fron a 75 Ranchero in the spare tire well up under the rear and still have room to put a skid plate across the frame rails to protect it...never figured out the filler neck...I was simply looking in a catalog of tanks you can get new and trying to find the largest capacity tank that would fit that space and leave room for at least a 1/4 inch skid plate.
I'm sure there are other options out there....
brute4c

Mud'og put a tank there in his. It hung down below the frame rails some I think. http://homepage.mac.com/m715/jeep/index.html

i could get a stainless one made to your specs......

Thank you all.

Lee, please tell me more :)

I was thinking of going to my local sheetmetal place to see if they would bend me two "u" sections of 12ga sheet metal that I could MIG together...

well a stock replacement ss one is 350,baffled , 3 inch inlet, pickup and return tube. i had no takers though......
get me your measurements and openings and such and ill ask them. my tank is very heavy and i think around 14 to 16ga.

i am going to have them build me a storage box to fit under there. for my tire chains, snatch blocks,rope and misc stuff that isnt used too often, but when needed its nice to have. i guess ill sell my spare tire bracket, and fab a new one, instead of ruining an original one.

Rear tank for 86 era ford truck looks real close and does not hang down like blazer/suburban tank.

Hello Lee,
I'll try to get some dimensions, but it will be a while before I can get to the fuel tanks due to the purchase of a 66 Toronado...
Thanks,
Mikel

Mikel, where did you get that avater? its sweet!!! i put a tank from a '91 blazer s-10 back there where the spare tire goes. it works good for me cuz its go the electric fuel pump.

-BrianM

I made it :)

Thanks for the info.

I put a 33 gallon tank out of a full size 82 Chevy Van. It barely fit up into the spare tire holder after I bent the corner sheetmeatl up on the tank. It hangs down a little and could use a skid plate, but I've never hit it with the wheelin I do.

I think the big 30 gallon bronco tank would work, but I've got a rear winch there (spare tire area) so I can't use it. I yanked the sheet metal rectangular tank off the red deuce truck last week and put that in the bed for now. 40 gallon. That'll work 'til I get one fabbed for under the bed.