Auxillary fuel tank - usuable litres versus stated lites

Hi Cruezr:

I am interested in the replies you get, as I was going to order one for my 80 Series this week. I will hold off for the moment.

What I do know is that on my normal sized tank, the low fuel warning light comes on, and I am able to travel quite some distance without running out. As you know, it is a 90 litre tank, and I have never been able to squeeze in more than 80 litres in, despite it recording empty. May be the same thing with the larger tank.

Cheers
Jack

Cruezr,
With any fuel tank the gauge is only a gauge. To get a true reading you will have to run until the motor starts to spultter, fill the tank slowing the flow for the last 15lt and that should let you know how much fuel the tank holds. Two things to do when doing this test,
1 Make sure that the other tank has fuel in it.
2 As soon as the motor starts to splutter stop the motor straight away.
With the fuel pick up pipe they always have it off the bottom of the tank a little so that it has less chance of picking up rubbish.
With your aux tank, because it is pumping into the main tank, it will be easy to drain the fuel to empty and do the fill.
Because the Cruiser is running on petrol it is not a good idea to fill both tanks right to the top. As the fuel expands up the filler pipe it will transfer to the other tank, and if both tanks are full fuel can leak from the filler or flow to the carbon canster under the bonnet.

Wayne

Hi Cruezr,

my 80 series diesel fuel tanks hold; main....87ltrs from empty

sub............48ltrs from empty

this recorded after running the respective tanks till motor starts to loose power.

hope this helps

Bob

I had a Long Range Automotive tank in my Rodeo and the low fuel light came on very early with about 25l left in the tank. I worked out how far down the fuel guage needle could go before I need to fill which usually left about 10l in the tank. But I found that as you got low on fuel, even though there was 10l-15l left in the tank the pickup in the tank didn't always stay submerged in fuel and you would do a hard left turn the the Rodeo would spatter then come good. Also I couldn't park with the nose down hill with low fuel as the pickup is at the back of the tank....and you guessed it!

Leroy

Hi Cruezr, how much did you pay for the auxillary including parts and fitting. I am about to get a Brown Davis 175l aux tank put in after removing the LPG setup, but I am going to have it set up to run totally independant of the main tank (145l Long Range Automotive tank)?

Cheers

I have a 190 Litre tank from 4WD Systems that I get 207 litres into each time it's empty (as in drained). Can usually get it down to about 2-3 litres left in it.
Main tank always takes 90 Litres when emptied so I guess I get that pretty empty too.
Have you got any dents in tanks for them to be reduced capacity?

P.S I filled my aux tank last week and squeezed 207 litres into it so these are recent figures.