Thread: 27 T tudor Hot Rod build

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Originally Posted by OFT

Nice looking work going on.

Just a question, with gas tank inside back-how are you going to fill it? I would not think taking a gas hose thru door to inside would be the best of plans. The 50's Chevy PU had the tank in cab-fill from outside and the fumes would get to you.

Earl

Also on the fuel tank....I know they look nice, but I sure do hope you're planning on building a firewall around the tank to isolate it from the passenger compartment?????

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Also on the fuel tank....I know they look nice, but I sure do hope you're planning on building a firewall around the tank to isolate it from the passenger compartment?????

Yes there will most deffinatly be a firewall isolating the fuel tank on three sides. I know its pinto style but there was no room for any other type of fuel tank anywhere else below the body without running into the exhaust pipes.

Truth be known, most of our hot rods are"pinto-like" in the gas tank department. Just no place to really tuck them away where a stray little old Lady in a Cadillac won't practice her parking technique. You should also consider venting the tank outside the body so fumes don't accumulate in the cockpit. (You don't smoke, do you? ) The vent can be as simple as a hose from the top of the tank that runs out into clean fresh air. I have no illusions that if some big old SUV rearends my T that I won't be smelling like unleaded for a while.

Nice little hot rod BTW.

Don

I got a new aluminum RCI tank, and cut down an old gas filler door from a 1968 VW Bug, and used all of it to connect from the tank to the outside. There was also a built-in vent in the VW filler neck, so it has worked out okay.. I'll try and dig up some photos and post them here...

Thank you for the help Don.
Would a vented filler neck be enough or would it be better/safer to also have a vent tube like you mentioned? The plans are to build a filler neck and door going to the back or side of the car with a vented gas cap. I could run a vent tube the length of the filler neck and vent through the gas door with ease.
No, I don't smoke and hopefully that old lady praticing her parking technique will have a cadillac low enough so that it will slide under the body of my car and not puncture the fuel tank.


Thanks Dave, that would be great if you could post those pics of how you went about using the VW gas door. They would be quite useful.


Thomas

Not the photos I was trying to find, but I think these will work---