100 series Cruiser Long Range Tank Issues????

Same Same Long Ranger fitted to 100 series+ tow bar towing Kedron Topender.

Indigo Jones

Do not forget Brown Davis, long range tanks, as a second Australian manufacturer.

Brown Davis long range fuel tanks

Also

Read this thread ID ( 72861 ) for my experience.


Their back up service is unbelievably brilliant.

Cheers Bucky

Bucky I haven't heard of Brown Davis Long range tanks before, nice to see there is some competition in the market -

Personally i am happy with my Long ranger and hopefully won't have to replace it anytime soon

Indeed Graham - when ordering my van and thinking about distances between fuel outlets, I decided to add fuel capacity to the van - the legislation/insurance is vital of course but I worry most about the car's rear tyres when loaded up to the limit and in high heat.

There are very few if any places that you would run out of fuel if towing a van on most roads around the country.

I only have standard tanks and never had a problem in 50,000k I sometimes carried an extra 40 litres in the car mostly to avoid high prices in some areas.

Carrying fuel in the van would possibly void any insurance.

We found it hard to keep under the vans legal ATM without trying to carry fuel in it as well Geeeeeeeezzzzz.

My tyres never got extraordinarily hot either even in 40+ days.

The only day they did was on the east coast in normal March temps and at the time I had a full width stone guard with a 300mm gap in the middle hanging on the tail of the car.

Rear tyres got up to 65deg Took the stone guard off and dropped back to 45deg. Never put it back on and had no more problems.

Just for your info (if considering other towbars)- I have the Trailboss too (previous owner) - Hayman Reese told me they make them in the same place as their own brand of towbars - a 'buget' line it seems - same load specs though - the genuine HR bar might be the same pattern.

Thanks very much for the follow up wdric, can you let me know what testing of the tanks has or has not been done with reference to crash testing please?... I read in another thread that members from this forum had concerns over the fitment of the long range tanks and insurance policies.

thanks

No crash testing has been done.
Do you have the link to that thread?
Anyone who has concerns about insurance most likely does not know the rules and is a pointless discussion with everyone saying their two bobs worth, but nobody talking facts.
Any tank that is mounted inside a chassis rail does not need any sort of structural testing. Side mounted truck tanks or tanks that are within 100mm of the external body need to be drop tested from a large height.
Once a car has been registered any ADR rules do not apply (but the bigger tank can not affect them) and it is the individual states rules that need to be considered.
The state rules are along the lines of:
No closer than 100mm to the ground
Do not affect the depature angle
Welded to an Australian welding standard etc
These rules are more for drop tanks in street cars as our tanks would not sell if we made them suit most of these rules :)

Besides all of that our tanks are made of 2mm aluminised steel and your factory sub tank that is in the same placed is only about 0.9mm

FYI
We once put one of our troppy tanks out in the padock a few years ago and put a remote ignition source in it.
We then put different amounts of fuel in it and tried to blow it up.
We them put some aero start in it and tried again.
AS a fuel tank is not a pressure vessel and can not handle pressure over about 10 psi before distroting it did distort and would not be able to be reused, but it did not split open.
A little dissapointing really we where hopeing for something like in the movies :)