At 9/25/2006 08:49 AM,JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote: >i took a junk vanagon gas tank to my local welder and he thinks he can do >this.. i cut the tanks open, clean them out thoroughly, let them dry, and he >will weld them. if it is a sucess, would there be any interest in these? i >have a number of good gas tanks here that i could do this to.. > >basically we are talking about cutting the gas tank open on the top at the >perimeter of the "saddle" depression, and welding in new metal to replace the >area of the "saddle" (that vw should have eliminated with the demise of the >aircooled vanagon), therefore increasing fuel capacity of the stock 2wd tank. > >anyone interested? > >chris
It sounds to me like a good idea and I am interested. I am still wondering about how much fuel gain there will be from this. I'd love to go for the +20 L tank but $500 is way too steep for the gain (at least for my wallet). I have not had the tank out yet so I'm picturing this from the last time I was under there. Call it half a cylinder of "X" diameter by how ever long the tank is. Anyone have a tank handy to do some measurements? Maybe the tunnel is not really "half a cylinder"?
Rob becida@comcast.net With a '91 Subaru 2.2 in an '87 Vanagon in western Washington. |
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