Is anybody making a repro gas tank for a pig? The only one I could find was the long range one from MAF, I'm not crazy about it because you have to move the spare tire.
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Not a repro tank, but both myself and Lou (Luke111) have had Ironpigoffroad make custom tanks for our 55's. I would bet any competent fabricator could make you one.
Ryan
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Thank's John and Ryan, I didn't realize about the hump. I'll have someone fab me up one when I get to that point.
What is wrong with the tank that came with yours?
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I'm not sure Pablo, I've had several fj40's with rusted out tanks, from the looks of the sides and underneath and being that it's the original tank of 35 years or so I'm guessing it's probably gonna have to be replaced.
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If there are no holes in it, I would pull it and take it to a radiator shop for tanking/cleaning and run it! You can run a clear filter right out of the tank outlet to make sure everything comes out clean!
I'd inspect it for sure. the tank in my 74 and 75 have no issues at all. And I'm not concerned about them at all. the 74 is just a parts pig anyway though. But like pablo said if its iffy at all have it cleaned then you're ready to go with no worries.
jake
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When I start to dissassemble the piggy I'll check it out and see how bad it is. It's kind of hard to see it real well where I have it but when I was underneath I did smell gas.
Lil'John said:I had my tank gone through and it was still an issue. Killed two external fuel pumpsWith the price of those two pumps plus the price I paid to have it lined/cleaned, I would have almost paid for my custom tank
Did you pre-filter your pump?
And remember that you can interchange all of the year of pig tanks with a little modification. The only hard part would be an early tank on a late model for emissions.
So you don't have to settle for a certain year tank.
So you don't have to settle for a certain year tank.
I had my stock tank cleaned/repainted at a local radiator shop while doing the body swap and 4,000 miles later have had absolutely no problems. No pre filter, no need (yet) to change out the filter ahead of my SBC fuel pump, no operational problems. They also fixed a slight crack around the sending unit, something they said is pretty common on many tanks. The whole job was $50.
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Thank's guys!