How to build a gas tank

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  1. ol' chebby

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    Interesting!

    Very interesting! Evan, aka Coilover, posted a thread several months ago about fabbing a fuel tank also. Coilover, too, is old school, only he knows how to spell it!:D I'll dig it up in the archives and let's compare them! Old School vs. Ol' Skool!

    Found the thread. https://talk.classicparts.com/showthread.php?t=6010
     
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    How much is in the tank

    Its easy to work out capacity of a tank in liters, you then you can convert to US Gallons 100mm or 10cm cube is 1 liter of liquid = .264 US Gallon. For people not sure on metric 100mm or 10 cm = 3.397ins, 1 US Gallon =3.7854 Liters

    Old enough to be taught in Imperial but now work in Metric and believe it or not it is a lot easier

    Gerald
     
  4. ol' chebby

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    Works out to 23 gallons. Improvement over 16 in the previous tank.
     
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    Now time to work out a mount system. Got the sender installed. Going to NAPA to get 1 1/2 fuel filler hose and new tubing to extend the fuel line.
     
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    Cool ;

    Thanx for the how to .

    I missed the pic of the sender hole tho'.....
     
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    We cut the hole to size, then stacked a 1/4 inch piece welded underneath to give it some meat to screw into.
     

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