Yet another gas tank thread (not the typical blazer between the frame rails stuff)

[Bowtie001]

OK, I don't remember that well, but I am pretty sure that my 84 had a cylindrical tank mounted on the passenger side outside of the frame rail under the cab/bed interface. I have not seen anyone do this to our trucks... because I do not want to ruin my spare tire area, and I don't want it in the cab anymore.

Has anyone taken a air tank and crafted a gas tank out of it or anything like that? How about mounting an odd shaped fuel cell there or close to it? I realize that the tank being outside of the frame rails is inherently less safe, but it'd better than in the cab, and a fuel cell is a whole lot safer than a tank anyways.

Any ideas on this? I like my spare tire (even though it currently does not live there)!

Thanks
-Brian

[BurnoutNova]

i dont have any reason to not have the gas tank iside the cab... ive never had a probleom, or gassy smells or anything... although the room behind the seats would be kinda nice

[Bowtie001]

Yeah, my reason is to make room for newer style seats and maybe a radio. Also, I think the tank leaks because it smells gassy, not to mention my filler neck is all screwed up.

-Brian

[mvfd70]

Do a beer keg tank in the front of the bed. Looks kinda cool and old school. If you can find an empty keg that someone doesn't want to refill.

[Bowtie001]

I don't want to go into the bed, although I thought about it for a long time... I use the truck as a truck too much for that...


But thanks for the suggestion

[mvfd70]

no prob. i'm thinking about doing the beer keg for mine. dunno for sure yet