Thread: Beer keg gas tank

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Ok I know I will get flamed hard for asking this as I am a firm believer in safety first on all cars.
But I want to build a keg gas tank for the rear of my 26 touring car. This will be set inside the frame rails and have a bumper behind it to protect it from rear impacts. I believe the way I want to build it into the frame rails will be safer than the old tanks behind the seat in trucks.
Does anyone know where I can find some info to build one of these?

Thanks
Tim

I got one sitting in the shop I started for my '27 bucket, the hard part is getting the hole cut for the bladder. I think it might be easier to get a fuel cell from Speedway and convert the parts to the keg.

Hambiskit, does it really need a bladder? The keg should be pretty well sealed to begin with. I know nothing of fuel tanks so this may sound stupid. But since the kegs are built to hold beer wouldn't it hold gas just as well and only need a filler neck welded on along with the fittings for the fuel line and return line?

the hardest part is trying to empty all the beer out by you self in a day? if you did one tank a day you would need a new bladderi think some one is pulling on you leg

Originally posted by pat mccarthy
...the hardest part is trying to empty all the beer out by you self in a day?....

well, unlike beer gasoline is explosive, and it's really hard to seal the tank so that it doesn't leak without one, but I guess you could run without it.
By using the parts from a fuel cell, you get a bladder, fuel door, and the right venting.
I'm still working on mine, but the one we did for a friend of mine wouldn't work till we vented it with a vent cap....then it looked like crap, and the one from the cell is flat.

well beer is thicker than gas but it you put it under psi so think it will not leak i have made some gas tanks from steel and aluminum and used tank sealer in the steel one did not do any thing with the aluminum ones if worried check with air

I was just going to suggest sealer...good catch Pat.

after he empty all the beer out of it he could all so try to fill it back up this would check his bladder

I was thinking something like this for a design. Please tear it apart and tell me what is wrong.

put retrun on top now how about a beer

Also in this design I plan on slanting the bottom towards the fuel line in a V shape to force the fuel to the line.
Would it be possible to cut the tank in half make the adjustments then weld it back together? (or in thirds, around it so the welds are covered by the strap brackets?)

Pat, if I do decide to do this I will have alot of beer to hand out as I don't drink anymore LOL, sober 6 years now. Thats why I want to use a beer keg, just a reminder of the "good" times of yesterday.

being round and the pickup is on the bottom it will allways get gas .no i do not any more just having some fun

Ok thats something I didn't think of, Thanks. Thats why I brought this idea up on this forum. Great minds to help me along.