Temp. Fuel Tank

Anybody have an idea for a temp fuel tank? My 1939 sits a lot and I don't want to put a new tank in it until I know the gas wont rot in new tank from sitting. Any ideas? Things that do/don't work?

 

Small 5 gal boat gas tank. Has all the pickups (may have to change some fittings) and some have a gauge on them. Got mine used for $7. Ran it for a long time and never had a problem. Buddy of mine still uses it in her car.

 

yep and some of them have a hand pump

 

Actually you could put a small (1 gal) gas can behind the grille with a piece of copper tube cut at an angle so it would draw. Safe? Not really but it will work and it's cheap. Of course I'm ***uming you're doing this to get it home, not drive all over.

 

Careful! a buddy of mine back in the early sixties used an open can to start the new engine in his pretty chopped and channeled model A sedan. Yep it was on the floor right where the exhaust was pointed. (we were still young and dumb) It really screwed up the paint and body work. I don't like open cans of flammable liquids.

 

had a boat tank in my 50 windsor for 2 years
untill i could find a tank
wasent easy to find a tank 25 years ago


the hand pump made it easer to start when you ran out of gas
and you just carred it with you when you ran out
did that once or twice



Paul Jug

 

Yea thats not really a permanent thing even if you get used to it. I had one in a corvair hooked to an electric pump. ran it that way for a year.
Standard story, lent it to a friend... burned real good he said.
Oh and replacement was, "my bad"

 

I needed a gas tank for a sandrail once and bought a steel five gallon gas can, before i put any gas in it i soldered a br*** barbed fitting through the side at the bottom. I actually found a place on the sandrail where it would wedge into and secured it with a bungee. I eventually got a real tank for the sandrail and I have used the gascan "tank" several times for those projects that need a quick trip around the block to make sure the brakes/steering/ trans, or whatever is working. I set it on the floor and run a line through the firewall (usually lots of holes in project firewalls) to the fuel pump. My neighbor that was a cop once went for a ride with me in a car with no gl***, no front sheet metal, no mufflers and no lights, he held onto the gas can so it wouldn't tip over when we beat on the car.....

 

Thanks for the ideas all. That really gives me some good ideas!

 

Maybe consider incorporating a plastic late model tank into the build. No more rot problems. Ever.

good luck