Tank Relocation

[redneck_reed78]

Who here has relocated their tank to the front of the bed in their square? Even better, has anyone got one of those toolboxes with the fuel tank built in? Lets see them and any ideas for when I ditch the saddles.

 

[Georgeb]

I have run a tank in the front of the bed. In fact I still have the tank with the sender for a square installed. I also ran a suburban tank in the rear. I preferred the tank under the truck in the rear.

 

[redneck_reed78]

I have run a tank in the front of the bed. In fact I still have the tank with the sender for a square installed. I also ran a suburban tank in the rear. I preferred the tank under the truck in the rear.

So you think that doing the tank relocation to where a suburban tank is at would be better? I just want to make it less ugly with a 3" body lift. I know that is a somewhat easy and somewhat cheap alternative to a toolbox-tank combo.

 

[Georgeb]

it would look better.

 

[bucket]

The toolbox/tank setups I've seen were for just for diesel refueling purposes. Just a fill cap and threaded for a drop tube and pump. No supply or return ports and no provision for a sender. Also, a lot of the welds look like they might be too porous for gasoline use.

 

[HotRodPC]

I have run a tank in the front of the bed. In fact I still have the tank with the sender for a square installed. I also ran a suburban tank in the rear. I preferred the tank under the truck in the rear.

You were able to fit a 40 gallon Burb tank in the rear of your truck frame? I have a 40 gallon Burb tank with an E pump that I'd love to be able to fit into my K10/K20 project. I didn't think it was a safe fit due to size.

 

[crazy4offroad]

Blazer/Burb tanks come in 25, 32 and 40 gallon.The 25 gallon just has a wedge end instead of full end to make the 7 gallon difference, and the 40 is just essentially several inches deeper to make up the 8 gallon difference from the 32. I'd love to put a 25 under my shortbed but the others should fit a longbed no problem. You may want to put a frame-mount reese hitch under there to help protect it, and maybe make a skid pan.