Thread: Shop Truck (True Spirit) Project

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I'm still plugging away.


I gave up on finding a good used (plastic) frame mount tank for my 76 a couple of weeks ago. No one is reproducing them and any of the ones I’ve found out here have been junk. I guess they hold up better in the NE and mid-west but it’s almost impossible to ship a used tank.

I had been looking at the original tank from my 37 Dodge pickup and although the capacity is a bit less than I’d like (15 Gal) the dimensions looked close. I set it up in the frame a couple weeks ago and it fit (ok with a little rearranging of the straps).

I decided I really didn’t want to trust a 70 year old gas tank. I finally found an aftermarket fuel cell that had the same dimensions and ordered it (it’s actually just a tank as it does not have foam in it).

After I rearranged the supports for the straps I test fit the cab to make sure I wouldn’t have any interference problems (I did this before I sprayed the bedliner so that could be drying while I worked on the tank).