Auxilary Fuel Tanks

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ccatfish

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While I here, I've been looking at auxilary fuel tanks for my pickup. I am enamored with the idea, except for the part about driving around town with 100 extra gallons of fuel. Any thoughts here? The few that I have looked at make no mention of being especially puncture proof.
 
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ccatfish,

Whoa, this is your lucky day, I have two I took off my Ford 3/4 ton, there yours for the shipping. They are hung by two 3/16 x 1 steel U-belts from the frame to the bed.

What really happened, is one actually came part loose and dropped on the road, at the time I was going quite slow and no big deal, but I had just pulled off a very busy freeway, ouch.

Unless you have a long way between stations I don't think they make a lot of sense. It's kinda nice to be forced to take a break from driving to get gas anyway. The reason that it came loose was the idiot (not I) that installed them. Simply bolted to the bed with no reinforcement just soft thin sheet metal to hold a 20 gallon tank.
 
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i sure agree here, i've had dual tanks an sure wouldn't put out $5 to do it again. unless you live out far enough to make it "necessary": you need to switch back an forth to keep fresh gas in both tanks, an then you go thru tank A; switch to tank B, when it gets low, ya forgot ya already emptied tank A, so ya keep goin an still run out of gas; hehehehehehaw
 
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Hmmm, I always thought the idea of two tanks was a good one. My old '81 F250 has the dual tanks, but the rear one started leaking a couple of years ago and I've still done nothing about it; just don't use it anymore./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bird
 
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I should probably rephrase this question. I'm actually looking at a L-shaped tank that will fit under the tool box in the bed of my truck. "Auxilary" was the wrong choice of words.

Now - does a 100 gallons of diesel fuel bother anyone?
 
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I suppose there's always some degree of risk in hauling around any flammable substance, but there's an awful lot of pickups in my area with those diesel tanks in the bed, primarily to refuel tractors in the field, but they also refuel the pickup from them, too. I wouldn't be afraid to do it if I had any need for it.

Bird
 
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thats different; diesel isn't available at every little station, especially off road diesel; and i don't think diesel is considered anywhere near as dangerous, in some areas the storage tanks can be above ground, while gas storage has to be underground..is your truck gas or diesel???
heehaw
 
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heehaw, my old truck's gasoline, but a lot of the real farmer's are using diesel pickups. I haven't checked into all the laws on off road vs. road use diesel, but for my tractor I don't want that red dyed diesel. Several people (including the supplier) have told me it's OK if used fresh, but does not keep well. I can still buy the regular ole #2 diesel without paying the road tax, but there's some forms you have to fill out and the supplier keeps on hand that you won't be buying more than 10,000 gallons a year, won't use any of it on the road, won't re-sell it, etc. But there are other provisions for folks like a neighbor of mine who has 3 big John Deeres, 2 diesel Ford pickups (big tank and pump in the bed of one), and an 18-wheeler for delivering hay. I think it's a thousand gallon above ground tank he has, uses it for all his diesel rigs, and there's an annual fee or permit of some kind.

Bird
 
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off road diesel is a buck a gallon; the other is $1.55 so i'll use the red dye stuff..never had a problem with it..a friend switched from diesel trucks back to gas, he trades every 3-4 years, he said the diesel trucks didn't have the re-sell..
heehaw
 
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I give up; how do you get off-raod diesel? Do you have to have it delivered?

I was stunned when I went to get my two 5-gallon containers filled for my tractor the other day - $1.999/gallon /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif. I hadn't noticed the price before starting to fill /w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif. I've since been looking at the other stations that are slightly out of my way and see I should have paid ~ $1.799 /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif. Either way, off-road sounds good.

The only thing is, is there a differance in things like sulpher content or cetane level? The manual specifically talks about those.

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