Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 22:09:34 -0400
Reply-To: Tom and Dana Cates <dcates1@HOME.COM>
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From: Tom and Dana Cates <dcates1@HOME.COM>
Subject: Re: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?
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RE: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?OK.
I have rescued the tank from the basement, and I have the following findings to report on it's construction.
It weighs 24 pounds.
It is painted black on the outside, and coated with a grey finsh on the inside.
It has at least one and possibly two baffles on the inside. One is on the Filler side, and has an angled bend at one end. It is spot welded in place. There may be another baffle that I cannot see, because I can see some additional spot welded flanges. But these flanges may be associated with the other, filler side baffle.
There is a well in the center bottom of the tank that is covered (baffled), provided for the fuel pickup line.
There are many mysterious tubes and holes both inside and outside the tank. They seem purposeful.
It appears to be of stock quality to my eyes.
I still don't really feel like putting it in.
Tom Cates
83 Westfalia, 'Hammurabi'
----- Original Message -----
From: BRENT CHRISTENSEN
To: 'Tom and Dana Cates' ; 'vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM'
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:35 PM
Subject: RE: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?
Does it have internal baffles?
Brent Christensen
'89 GL Syncro Westy
Santa Barbara, CA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Tom and Dana Cates
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:09 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?
>
>
> Herr Doktor,
>
> I have one.
>
> I have not installed it yet, because, well because I don't
> really relish the
> idea of doing it.
>
> Sometimes on Fridays I fill her up.
>
> But maybe this weekend I will put it in.
>
> Tom Cates
> 83 Aircooled Westfalia 'Hammurabi'
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doktor Tim" <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?
>
>
> > At 01:30 PM 05/09/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > >You don't think an aftermarket company couldn't reproduce
> a fuel tank for
> > >less the $500?
> >
> > Not for $150 unless they use third world semi-skilled labor
> and very cheap
> > to ship lightweight metal. Compromise cum laude.
> >
> > It's a fuel tank. These are sold all over the world, not
> > >just the tiny USA market. That's why they are cheap!
> >
> > No, they're cheap because every compromise was thought of
> to meet the
> world
> > demands of fools, who are poor, and will remain so unless
> they catch a
> clue
> > and begin to VERIFY before they buy what they are buying,
> which is what
> the
> > respondent is trying to do.
> >
> > Some re-pros are better than
> > >stock--they've seen where they have failed and are designed better.
> >
> > Interested in any data you have that supports that
> statement. I know of a
> > very few and rare examples, most of them Berg parts, but
> then, those are
> > ENHANCED materials and specifications and cost MORE than
> dealer oem price
> > in some cases.
> >
> > By all means Jay, respond to the individual who has asked
> for the opinion
> > of anyone with ACTUAL EXPERIANCE as to the installation of the tanks
> > supplied by BusDepot. For a certainty, SOME aftermarket parts are
> > uninstallable without modifications and some will not work right
> regardless
> > any attempt to install them and some are just flat not
> installable and the
> > worst are the ones you do get installed by hook or crook
> and they fail and
> > take more original parts with them.
> >
> > I would expect Ron would provide people with references to
> clients he has
> > shipped these particular tanks to. Any good business
> person, like Ron, is
> > not at all fearful of word of mouth reports. That's how you
> tell a good
> > business to deal with. The word of mouth in the vast majority is
> possative.
> >
> > I agree that restoration of the genuine original tank is a
> vastly superior
> > idea to using anything designed to be cheap. But in the
> instant case, the
> > original was crushed and deformed and presumably not
> repairable. As well,
> a
> > junkyard obtained and restored original tank is a way mo-
> better idea than
> > anything designed to be cheap.
> >
> > It will FOR SURE fit with NO HASSLES, guaranteed, 'cause
> it's EXACTLY the
> > same.
> >
> > What value hath certainty??? Differs between apes of all
> kinds as your
> > opinion compared to mine doth prove.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > T.P. Stephens
> > San Juan Island, WA
>
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