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Some of my new Ideas
I made these brackets at work so I could raise my gas tanks when I put on my body lift. That is one of the biggest things I cant stand about a body lift. Seeing the damn gas tanks hang down.
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I hooked my 2 gas tanks togeather so i didnt need to turn the truck around at the gas station to fill both tanks. None of the gas stations around here have hoses long enough to reach both tanks.
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Here are the steps that I made at work. I have got alot of complements about these. All my freinds want them now. The only thing I cant decide is to crome plate them or powder coat them. Tell me what you think and what the difference would be in cost.
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NICE WORK MAN.......POWER COAT......
STAY CLEANER LONGER....LOOKS LIKE YOU MIGHT KICK UP A LITTLE DUST....LOL ![]() |
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powder coat... bling is bad!!!
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Powder coat for sure. With you going off roading the powder coating will hide more scrtaches than chrome.
BTW: Sweet setup on the dual tanks fill up. How are you going to do the door(s) for the fill up and does it fill over to the other tank with no issues? I thought it might be trouble with no slope.
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Powder coat looks like the way to go with your ride.....
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I vote for the powder coat too.
I am also interested to see how you connected the tanks.
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I think that I am going to go with the powder coat. I talked to a plating place and a local place that does the powder coating for my work today. The plating was going to cost 150 to 200 for each step and that was only the step and not the brackets. The powder coating is only going to be 60 for both and that includes a coat of clear over it when finnished. I told the guy where I worked and I think that is one reason he is cutting me a break.
As for the tanks, I dont have any more pics of them right now. I dont have a digital camera. I used a piece of 1 1/2" thin wall conduet (how ever it is spelled ![]() If any one hase more questions or coments let me know, I will try to get more pics as soon as possible.
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I think that I am going to go with the powder coat. I talked to a plating place and a local place that does the powder coating for my work today. The plating was going to cost 150 to 200 for each step and that was only the step and not the brackets. The powder coating is only going to be 60 for both and that includes a coat of clear over it when finnished. I told the guy where I worked and I think that is one reason he is cutting me a break.
As for the tanks, I dont have any more pics of them right now. I dont have a digital camera. I used a piece of 1 1/2" thin wall conduet (how ever it is spelled ![]() If any one hase more questions or coments let me know, I will try to get more pics as soon as possible.
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