[mm0015]

I have noticed all of the in-bed fuel transfer tanks come with large warnings welded to then warning you not to connect them to the fuel system in any way. Is this just a legal thing (tax evasion with Ag fuel) thing, or is there a safety issue?

 

[copano]

Most inbed tanks are not DOT approved to connect to the fuel system.

Though I hooked mine up so as to transfer fuel to my aft axle tank.

I've never been checked so I don't know if they would send me off to gitmo bay or not for for welding a fitting on the bottom of the tank.

 

[blackestate]

I too welded on mine, and used hot rod heaters in the bottom of it. Works great!

 

[STREETRODS]

AUX. FUEL TANK PLUMBING

HAVE A 100 GALLON STEEL TANK, WANT TO HOOK IT UP TO THE FUEL SYSTEM IN MY 97 F-250 DIESEL. ARE THERE KITS-USEABLE SAFE IDEAS-RUBE GOLDBERG PLUMBING? DON'T WANT FIRE OR SAFETY HAZARD, BUT CAN'T AFFORD TO GO D.O.T. REGS EITHER.
DAVE

 

[JR3342]

Not crash tested. Or puncture tested. No fill hole with vent to auto shut off nozzle to prevent spills. So not a dot fuel tank fof a motor vehicle on highway use. Other than that perfectly fine for a d2 tank.
And no fitting to mate to vapor recovery nozzles.

 

[maxtrax]

I put a homemade tank in my F250 bed. Just used the RDS install kit to put the tank in. It holds 106 gallons which is less than the legal amount in Mchigan and installed a second shutoff down by the fill neck. Typically I shut the shutoff down by the tank so I can fill my tank with black diesel and blend to 25% fairly easily. Filll it with 100 gallons of D2 and it will supply me with enough D2 to to fill my tank blended properly many times over!.

 

[STREETRODS]

FUEL TRANSFER TANK

THANKS GUYS, HOW AND WHERE DID YOU MOUNT THE SUPPLY HOSE TO THE TANK? HAVE A 1/2' FITTING AT BASE OF MY TANK, JUST NEED TO GET THE FUEL TO MY FRONT TANK WITHOUT PUMPING IT IN. ALSO DON'T WANT THE TRUCK TANK OVERFLOWING BECAUSE OF GRAVITY.
WILL I NEED A FILTER FOR THAT TANK, AS IT IS USED? I WILL SEAL IT WITH EPOXY, BUT THAT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK.

 

[riograndebio]

The way I'd do it is: connect your stock tank and your aftermarket tank together to the engine supply line with a tee, and put a check valve in the line to the stock tank (so that fuel can only flow from the stock tank to the engine, not the other way around).

That way, the aux tank can supply the engine and so can the stock tank, but the aux tank can't overflow the stock tank.

 

[maxtrax]

I used the northern tool RDS system. It allows me to fill my aux tank with regular D2 when its cheap and then put my WMO blend into my normal tank. There is a plastic in-line shutoff inside my wheel well which allows me to shut the D2 off. The kit will automatically shut the flow off and prevent it from flowing out the fill neck on your normal tank. However, I because I blend my WMO/D2 at about 75/25, I shut it off manually. Then when I fill my main tank up to 3/4-full mark with blend, I can simply turn the in-line valve to finish filling with my cheap D2.

Later I when my cheap D2 has been used (around that time I am going to want to take some road trips without a trailer), I will be putting blend in my aux tank instead. This will allow me to take extra with me without the mess.

 

[mudbrother]

My 80 gal aux tank fits in the bed of the truck right behind cab and gravity flows through a shutoff valve into the filler neck of my front stock tank. I always leave the valve opened and have never had a problem with it leaking anywhere.

 

[SGT JUNK]

I'm sure the storage tanks work fine. and in a perfect world I would use one. But if you get into an accident and it's your fault and the tank goes flying and kills someone then your auto insurance won't cover you the damage done by the tank or anything. i HATE!!! to use scare tactic scenarios but it's the truth. the tanks for fine but when you get into an accident it legal issues and liability and EPA-DOT that will pull your nuts off when they see what was flying around in the back of your truck.
All things considered an accident is really likely and the trucks can take a beating in accident and don't drive like a jackass and you should be fine. I wish I could afford one and install one on my truck

 

[riograndebio]

But if you get into an accident and it's your fault and the tank goes flying and kills someone then your auto insurance won't cover you the damage done by the tank or anything. i HATE!!! to use scare tactic scenarios but it's the truth. the tanks for fine but when you get into an accident it legal issues and liability and EPA-DOT that will pull your nuts off when they see what was flying around in the back of your truck.

Well gosh, then I guess we'd better never put anything at all in the back of our trucks, because we might get in an accident and something might fly around. Honestly, although I've heard of people being cited for improperly secured loads, I've never heard of someone's insurance company refusing to cover someone in an accident because something flew out of their truck and hit the other vehicle.

That's all this is -- a scare tactic. And it's silly.

 

[SGT JUNK]

Hey RIO,
I hear yeah, I'm just passing on what I've heard. I'm not sure how true it may be, but with some insurance companies you never know what there lawyers will do. especially is you have 6-figure or 7 figure damages to property or peoples medical issues for death from flying fuel tank.
The likelyhood of it happening is slim but I'm just putting all the cards out there. I wish things weren't this way but is a crazy world we live in

 

[evo45]

So what you guys are saying it isnt a smart idea to weld up a tank that goes where the spare tire is on my F250 to put an extra 50-60 gallons of fuel into? I want an aux tank but I dont want to loose any of my bed space. I am looking into my options of a homemade under bed tank. Hell by the time I am done with it, my tank will be stronger than the stock one! I will post up about it once I have more info about it.

 

[HenryJ]

i used the kit from rds also for transfer to the main. It worked great for years. Then one day out of the blue, I forgot to shut off the aux manually just as a precaution and walked out in the garage and it looked like the old Valdez had landed there. What a mess.

 

[maxtrax]

This is why I have a manual shutoff in my wheel well. It also helps me to gauge how much is left in my aux tank because I know my main tank is about 30 gallons completely empty.