gas tank in square short crew
 

Hello, all. I am about to embark on my build, crew cab long box dually to crew cab short box single. I have seen that the tanks wont work after I shorten the frame. What do I use? Suburban? Blazer?? help! thanks fro your help, pics to come.

Re: gas tank in square short crew
 

Blazer and Burb tanks fit nice between the rails or you could use some tanks from a shortbed and that should work good as well.

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Is the sender and the pump interchangeable with the sender and pump in the short trucks or the blazer/burbs? mine is a 1991 with the 454.

Re: gas tank in square short crew
 

If you use the 16 gallon saddle tanks yes.
if you use the blazer/burb tank, no. because of depth differances.

Re: gas tank in square short crew
 

The 'burb tank will hang down pretty low and be visible fromt he back of the truck. Some folks don't like that. If you don't like that look you can do a custom installation like I did.

See posts no. 8 & 29 in my build thread http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=363509

First photo below is the 49 chevy passenger style fuel tank,

2nd photo is a Suburban style fuel tank

3rd photo is my truck with roll pan installed, tank can't be seen from rear.

Re: gas tank in square short crew
 

How are you going to do the frame?
just going to shorten it, or graft on a short-bed rear section?
the reason I ask is I found out the hard way that the DRW hangers locate the leaf springs closer to the frame that the SRW ones do. So if you are shortening the frame, you will either need to swap hangers or move the saddles on the rear axle tubes in-board

are you going to keep it 8 lug?

Re: gas tank in square short crew
 

Check out ojoe's or suicide63 build threads.

Re: gas tank in square short crew
 

The plan is to shorten the frame, I can probably round up some hangers without too much trouble.