Couldn't you lay bricks to fill the cavity in the tank and then take like a ten gallon container and put 4 gallons of water in it and then add all the bricks to the bucket and measure or mark the new waterline. Then pull the bricks and add enough gallons of water to the bucket until the water level reached the mark and figure the volume that way? Did this make any sense? Maybe it's too much work. DM&FS
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.At 07:07 PM 9/26/2006, JORDANVW@AOL.COM wrote: >this evening i took an old vanagon gas tank, laid it on the driveway, and >used bricks and boards and tape to build "walls" around the saddle depression >(only on the leftmost side - the saddle where the aircooled vanagon >heater duct >would go, if it was an aircooled) i left the depression for the >coolant tubes >and shift linkage to go thru. i then laid plastic sheeting over it. > >i took an empty gallon milk jug, filled it with water, and slowly started to >pour water into the plastic sheeting lined "saddle". i emptied 3.5 gallons >into the saddle area.. then there is the area at the front, which rises up, >that's another half gallon im sure.. > >so anyway we're talking about a approx. 4 gallon fuel increase with modifying >the stock 2wd vanagon gas tank, in the way i suggested... > >this could mean another 75-100 miles out of a tankfull (depending on what >your gas mileage is and what engine you're running) > >i'm going to have one made for myself.. if it turns out well, would there be >enough interest in this? > >chris > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >To leave this list send an 'empty' message to ><mailto:vanagon-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> >Yahoo! Groups Links > ><*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanagon/ > ><*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > ><*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vanagon/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > ><*> To change settings via email: > mailto:vanagon-digest@yahoogroups.com > mailto:vanagon-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com > ><*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > vanagon-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > ><*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006
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