Suburban Gas Tank in 60????

[FJ40Jim]

I'm trying to get a rear tire/jerry can rack built. If that goes through I might fool around with this idea. It won't be soon cause the rack deal has stalled.
I do have a source for clean Chev and Ford tanks , ( "U-Pull wrecking yard)

The junkyard doesn't have many 30+ gallon tanks. Only some late Broncos and some suburbans have the optional giant tanks.

When lining up the fill spouts; do they make filler hose in a "Flex" universal and/or different lenghts that you can get at NAPA or etc?

The hose that connects the ford fill neck to tank is pretty long, so I'm hoping to use that from the junkyard. Alternatively, I've used good quality straight radiator hose on race car installations. Bends are made w/ custom bent exhaust tubing, if necessary.

Will the tank venting be similiar?

Yes, any modern fuel tank is gonna have one or more vent barbs that will conect to the Cruiser canister hose.

Will the fuel gauge from the Toyota seal into the top of the US tank?

No, nowhere near. My plan is to carefully remove the actual sender from the toyota mount plate, then attach to the US sender plate.

would you just add to the stock (toyota) gauge rod to make it work in the US tank deeper tank?

That's a possibility. I was leaning more toward bending the arm so the float just hits the bottom of the tank. That way it will read E when the tank is E. Maybe it will read full for the first ten gallons, but that doesn't concern me. I just want to have fair warning of Emptiness.

 

[calfj60]

I am just gonna run a Autometer sender....I have a full set of autometer gauges and in fact the sender should be here on weds...Bought off eBay for 30 bucks....Now to just get the money together for the tank....I was planning to just run a new peice of filler hose and a new gas cap and neck...Mine is bent and doesn't seal to well as it is...Time for a little custom work

 

[High Desert]

Thanks Jim

2 follow ups:

Nearly every Suburban sold (here in the West)since 1996 or so has a 40 gal single tank. Is this not one of the Tanks we're talking about?

And I guess I don't know enough about the sending units and the internal workings of the tanks to ask the right questions...but I would not want to change any gauge in the dash from stock.
like you said, I don't care how "full" it reads as long as it tells me EXACTLY how "empty" it is getting...

 

[bunja]

How did this work out? Was the project finished?



I need a new tank for my bj60 and am interested

 

[FJ40Jim]

See:
Tank thread