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As part of my s10 frame swap, I relocated the gas tank to under the bed/behind the rear axle. Iv seen trucks where they put the filler right in the bed floor, I'm not fan of that. What I'd like to do is put it in the rear fender, preferable in the rear of the fender. Has anyone done this? Have pics for ideas? I dont know yet if i want try and add a hinged door with filler neck behind it or just come out with filler neck like how it is on the cab. Any thoughts or resources on materials?

Thanks

The 1948 pickup fuel tank filler came out through the passenger bed side.

http://www.stovebolt.com/gallery/redinger_gary_1947.html

Here are a few other photos of 48 passenger-side beds.

Thanks for the pics tclederman. I want to put it in the driver fender because the connection off of the tank is pointing in that direction, also its hard to see in the pic but theres some crinkling in the fender in that one spot (long story, pretty sure the powder coated damaged it and did a bad job covering it up by banging it out a little) and I figure kill 2 birds with one stone by put the filler there to avoid doing some body work, I think it might be hard making it look right with it being on a big curved surface though.
http://i.imgur.com/1OJVYxo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Zz2fRqf.jpg

On my '56 3100 I used a 55-59 Suburban/Panel gas tank that mounts between the frame rail and drive shaft on the bassenger side. Then I ran the filler pipe to the rear fender behind the wheel. I used a filler assembly unit made by Tanks, Inc. I ran the tank vent to the top of the fender well using one of the fender mounting bolts with a ell bracket to hold the rollover valve/vent in place. The only issue I have is I have to fill it slow, as fast fill will make it burp back, but I can live with that.

I didnt want my tank under the rear of the bed for three reasons... 1) I wanted to keep my spare tire in place 2) I wanted to be able to fill the truck if I had a load in the bed and 3) I didn't want my truck to go up in flames if there was a rear end wreck.

Mike B

We use a motorcycle filler tube and cap on most of the non-original ones we do. It turns a quarter turn counter clockwise and pops up to unthread from there just like a new car. If one chooses to paint body color it is nearly invisible. Can you spot the cap about 2" under the body molding line on the blue 34?

http://s32.photobucket.com/user/coilover/media/015.jpg.html
http://s32.photobucket.com/user/coilover/media/016.jpg.html
http://s32.photobucket.com/user/coilover/media/two%2034s%20outside%20001.jpg.html