Gasoline goes bad fairly quickly, and the ethanol fuel can wreak havoc on some of the older vehicles. So if your not gunna put many miles on it, i wouldn't do a aux. tank. Get ya some jerry cans.

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Originally posted by Abbispa:
Gasoline goes bad fairly quickly, and the ethanol fuel can wreak havoc on some of the older vehicles. So if your not gunna put many miles on it, i wouldn't do a aux. tank. Get ya some jerry cans.

I agree with forgoing the extra tank in favor of Gerry cans if you only occasionally go on several days in the so-called "OUTBACK" where fuel is not available.

However, I had a little Datsun pick up that had a very small tank. I also had the 21 gal tank the was originally inside the cab of and 1946 F1 ford pick-up that I turned into a done buggy. The tank out of that pick-up fit perfectly against the cab end of the bed of the Datsun. The Datsun fuel gauge worked only for the original tank, so I simply spliced a two way valve in the fuel line from the main tank and for long trips I would fill the aux 21 gal and switch to that tank. This way when the big tank ran out, the fuel gauge still showed full with 13 gallons to get me to fuel in both tanks and switching back to the big tank for the return home from a long 10 or 12 day hunt in the New Mexico, Colorado or Wyoming mountains, back to the hill country of Texas.

Once the big tank ran dry, I would simply not fill it again and use only the little tank around home. These two tanks gave me a range of about 1000 miles in that little fuel frugal go anywhere pick-up!

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