Projects When sometimes 11 gallons wont quite make it.

@Roger Loupias

I respectfully question your statement that the tank is ‘securely mounted’. The two straps visible are rather ‘light duty’ in appearance, but more importantly, appear to nearly encircle the tank. Considering the tank is tubular, or circular, in shape it has little resistance to rolling. In a front end collision the g forces on the tank (when full, I am estimating about 80 lbs) will be substantial, in my opinion.

What I am suggesting is that the tank needs the anchoring system, whether base brackets and/or straps, to be as wide or wider than the tank diameter to best resist the rolling moment that will occur upon abrupt deceleration. Perhaps there are such brackets at the base of the tank that are not visible in the photos. If that is the case…..well….’never mind’

Ray

 

Yeah, the clear glass inline fuel filters have a bad reputation for occasionally leaking or coming apart. It's been discussed a couple times in older threads.

Old glass filter bowls as installed originally on early cars do not seem to have this problem.

 

I can change it out to a canister type. Thanks

 

I had a tire on my travel trailer spit the tread off on that section of hwy this past July. Fortunately I had a spare tire mounted on a wheel, plus an unmounted spare tire. I swapped the mounted spare onto the trailer than eased into Green River and found a guy there to put the other spare tire onto wheel with the treadless tire, and made it back to So Cal with no more tire troubles. Not much in Green River.

About 30 - 40 years ago I had another exiting adventure along that stretch of hwy, but I won't go into that here.....

 

buddy had the guy pull his '47 from winter storage and the glass filter on the firewall was cracked... he got it from me / ebay / china...
i put a plastic one on next day...

 

Pretty fond of the 'Fall-flat' sticker too!!
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