I have been searching and can not find a source. Man-a-fre says they won't be able to get anymore. Anyone know of a source.
Thanks
Thanks
Anyone know of a source for the Austrailian OEM 13 Gal Aux Fuel tank?
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Romer,
Let us know if you find a source. I was looking last year when she blew her gasket. I would still like to have one.
Let us know if you find a source. I was looking last year when she blew her gasket. I would still like to have one.
Romer,
I don't know if this is going to work, see if you can PM prossett since he lives in UAE and most of the 80s I have seen here are equipped with OEM aux tank. Maybe he can ship one for you that came from the junkyard located in the desert. That just my opinion though. I would like to get one too since I'm over here in the middle east.
I don't know if this is going to work, see if you can PM prossett since he lives in UAE and most of the 80s I have seen here are equipped with OEM aux tank. Maybe he can ship one for you that came from the junkyard located in the desert. That just my opinion though. I would like to get one too since I'm over here in the middle east.
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Romer-You'll be welcome to check mine out at Cruise Moab.
If you will give me a few days, I've been meaning to get over to Northwest Metal Products and see about replacing the main with a larger tank. They build tanks for almost all toyota products, except, of course, the 80. I think a larger main tank would be better, as you wouldn't have to do all of the filler, switch and pump mods. I'll post up when I get round to it and get some info.
Now that sounds really handy! I'm definately interested if you can get someone with a reliable reputation to build a reliable larger main tank. I've never really looked, is there room for a significantly larger main tank?
Man-a-Fre sels on that is 38 gallons, I don't know how much it hangs down, if at all. It however is north of $800.00 not including shipping. Northwest metal is local to me and most of their tanks are in the $500.00 to $600.00 range. see http://www.nwmp.com/fueltanks.asp
Bearcat keep us informed with what you find, I would be very interested in a larger main tank.
is the Search fxn not working?
https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=1948&highlight=aux+fuel+tank
https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=1948&highlight=aux+fuel+tank
Romer-You'll be welcome to check mine out at Cruise Moab.
I hope you sleep in the 80, I can see in the dark and have very quiet tools
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Located one in Australia but it's like $250 to ship. Anyone from Australia coming to the states?
I emailed privateparts about one for a 60 and he said he couldn't becuase the fumes were impossible to get out making it a hazard or something. keep that in mind though
Every 6 months or so I send a container load of cars to Seattle from Melbourne Australia. If you all start making a list of parts that you require I could pretty much get them to the Seattle with no shipping cost. Had half a container of free space numerous times. Obviously no problems with fuel tanks as the cars have tanks in them anyway and alot of other spare parts.
You might contact David (OZCAL) I think he makes the trans pacific trip (fairly) frequently. But not sure how they like passengers to be checking in old gas tanks even if it were empty though.
If there's a part number(s) I would be curious to see if I can get my hands on it. Just curious.
Mot
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If you want to spend the coin SOR has the tanks, brackets, filler neck etc. Club price is around 830.00 plus 50.00 shipping. Some one the parts are new and some used an reconditioned. For example the brackets have been cleaned, painted and new rubber added. http://www.sor.com/sor/cat250.tam?xax=5797&page.ctx=cat250.tam
The unrestricted does not have the smaller unleaded opening.
I have checked into having a tank shipped from Oz. And, as stated earlier the tank must be free of fumes. Which shouldn't be hard to do. However, all that done you really need to have to packaged well. Price I got to pick up a tank et al, crate it and ship via air was 1100.00, 800.00 for sea.
The unrestricted does not have the smaller unleaded opening.
I have checked into having a tank shipped from Oz. And, as stated earlier the tank must be free of fumes. Which shouldn't be hard to do. However, all that done you really need to have to packaged well. Price I got to pick up a tank et al, crate it and ship via air was 1100.00, 800.00 for sea.
Part of the trick for shipping an individual unit for one person, say from an AUS ebay auction, is to have it shipped in two units so the package size doesn't go into the "oversized" category. Last I checked the tank all by itself properly padded was just under the size/weight specs for SeaMail. The other bits, xfer pump, dual neck filler, switch, fit into another box. Together the two boxes were less than $75 USD via SeaMail this way. It does take about 2 months sometimes and sometimes the cargo units get washed off the deck of the ships and you loose. But most of the time it seems to work just fine. You really just need to find someone in AUS that is willing to do things this way if you are really trying to do this affordably. FYI, before the 80-series was the soup du jour, SOR and MAF had complete kits for under $400 
Times changes things I guess...
Times changes things I guess...
http://store.summitracing.com/partd...290104&N=700+4294839036+1005+115&autoview=sku
why does it need to be a toyota LC tank. there is enough room down there to fit an infinite number of diff tanks. have the fill hole on top of your steel bumper. not rocket science
why does it need to be a toyota LC tank. there is enough room down there to fit an infinite number of diff tanks. have the fill hole on top of your steel bumper. not rocket science
