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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 438 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 438 | Mr Lang,
That's the correct tank. I'm sure someone who has an original tank will come along and tell you the capacity. I put a tank between rear frame rails where the spare tire used to be. Drawback is no spare and I have to wait on AAA.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | the tank will be 16-18 gallons like all GM trucks back then - measuring it out: inchesX inchesX inches / 231 = gallons .... or about 7.5 US gallons/cubic foot
Bill | | | | | Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,781 Master Gabster | | Master Gabster Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,781 | | | | | | Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 | Fantastic link. I guess it must be 16 gallons then. Other than the dents...
It just looks so small when its out from under the bus.
Thanks. I guess I should have used the search feature. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Yep, we been through this before. I almost took a gallon measuring tank and filled up one of these.... http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r19/LutherParris/52Panel/Fueltanks002.jpgbut rather than to the work I decided to accept the fact its a 15/16 gal. tank....I suppose it depends on how much you can pack in it including the filler neck!!! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 | Yeah, I guess if I want to get 16 gallons in there, I'd better shake the truck back and forth, to make sure the filler neck is full! My gauge should work now, so that should mean I don't run dry anymore...... | | | | | Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 835 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 835 | Mr. Lang,
When I fill up, I can never get more than about 13 gal in the tank, and this is when the needle is at the point that I know, from experience, that I am about dead empty.
Kurt | | | | | Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 194 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 194 | Whwn you get it together, put in several gallons. Make sere you have a spare 1 gallon can. When you run out, put in the spare 1 gallon and head for the closest station. When you fill it up, you will know how much gas you have avaible for driving. This is really what's important. Not the tank capacity. You have some at the bottom of the tank you cannot use.
Filler and keep on trucking | | | | | Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 | I've got 5 gallons in a jerry can here, to do just that! My tank pick up will suck the tank dry, not even a cup of gas remains! I guess the tank is dented in all the right places. I had to suck the tank dry, as my tank drain has been soldered shut.
Looking at the bottom of my panel, seeing the dents in the gas tank, the four holes repaired in the oil pan, I've come to a conclusion. It must have been featured on an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard. Perhaps Bo and Luke drove it up the old creek bed in order to escape Roscoe P. Coletrane. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 | That looks just like the tank on my '48 3100, which is 15 gallons. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | Tom, This says 16 gallons in 1948; and, it also says that all 3100 1948 gas tanks were the same size (probably the same tank in regular cab and panel-body). 16 gallons here, too; and, my interpretation might be incorrect, but that 16 gallon between-the-frame tank was used in panel-body trucks through 1953. Regular in-the-CAB 49-53 tanks were 17.5 gallons. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Like Chris says. The tanks can be sucked dry. My old one was rusted out so bad it was pitiful....however you can see how the "pickup" tube is tacked to the bottom of the tank, I could also see this in two other tanks of which one was a new one. check this pic. http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r19/LutherParris/52Panel/Fueltanks004.jpgas a footnote, the babble is just about 4 inches back from the pickup tube. It sits up about 1/8 inch off the bottom of the tank so no gas is "caught" behind the baffle. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 | Awwwh Alvin, you're an alarmist. That looks like all it needs is "Por 15" .
Well, maybe you might want to look for Por 16. It's one more isn't it?
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,388 | Just as an update, my tank in fact, holds 10 gallons. That's all I can get in at the gas station. I imagine my vent tube is pointing down, and not against the top of the tank. When I replace the fill hoses, I'll look at that. At least it's clean, and the gauge works now. | | |
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