For those of you that have side tanks under the spash aprons, what good and bad things have you learned? How did you solve problems if you had them? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks Paul
A close friend and I made two or three filler necks and could never get the tanks filled with out getting fuel everywhere. They got sold at the next swap meet! One of are other friends has them and is living with slow filling and never getting the tanks completely full. My vote is do not use them. Good luck
I ordered a set from "Tanks" on a model A coupe i was building, explained to the guy it was a TCI chassis, "no problem" Would not fit because of the front radius rod mounting brackets, called them back told them the deal. I had to pay shipping plus a re-stocking charge, last time i did business with them!!!!!!!!!!!
Father in law used them on a coupe. Couldn't fill them all the way and he had to turn the car around everytime he filled up. Kinda like those ot chevy's with dual tanks. What a pain in the ass.
I have seen a lot of used ones for sale over the years.., and usually the people selling them want to get almost full return on their expense, Must be a reason they removed them or never used them to begin with..I'll let you take it from there.
I have them on my '30' coupe. They work fine. I have about 14 to 15 gallons capacity between the two tanks, but I think the siphon tube leaves about 1 to 1.5 gallons in tank, so really only have about 12 gallons. It would be easier in the trunk, but I wanted to keep the rumble seat on this car. Just have to be careful to gas up if you are going any distance. Mine fills easier than my 2008 GMC tank that is always shutting off.
I'm going to install a set on my '29 Roadster. I don't mind a slower fill rate nor turning the car around for the other side. For me it will be better than the sloppy factory stock position which is slow fill, a paint destroyer and always checking the silly fuel gaug in the dash that ends up leaking after awhile plus the leaking valve/bowl and carb if you forget to turn the valve off everytime. Then of course the fumes in my closed Tudor when I owned it. I guess the thing that does concern me is a flat and the tank drags on the ground.......... Once I get them installed, I'm going to let the air out of the tires to imitate flats from front to rear and worse case both on one side.
The tanks extend quite far forward and will not clear split wishbones when mounted on the outside of the frame.
Thanks for the responses, dudes. I can see that filling the tanks all the way is impossible with the filler neck in the aprons unless you fabricate the fill tubes to turn up 90 degrees so they are higher than the tank. That might look weird. I have the filler necks mounted in the front of the rear fenders which gets them high enough to fill the tanks plus some added space (I can get 8 gal. in the 7 gal tank) but having the filler in the fenders makes it impossible to mount the size rear tire I need (and they look weird!). Just looking for some answers, surely someone has figured this out by now!! Paul PS the fuel system was mounted by the original builder 10 plus years ago.
Couple more photos of tank filler tube vs. tire size. Currently have 26", need 28 or 29" with the 3.50 rear ratio. Paul
I don't have these tanks, but it seems if they were made shorter or with clearance in front that would correct that issue with wishbones . That tire clearance could be dealt with by placing the cap in the body close to its location now but 90* and directing the elbows to the center of the car instead of back, down, center, forward. doing that would take 180* of elbows out of the tire well. Also that looks scary to me, what if you hit some road debris and rip it open ? I've hit plenty of stuff that rides the tire around.
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