After Market Fuel Tanks

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Re: After Market Fuel Tanks

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I agree with Mike, my new tank will be for my convenience. 60 plus gallons of gas will get me through a day's drive.
Then set up and go get gas, not having to negotiate the pumps around cars with the bird:thumbrt:
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Re: After Market Fuel Tanks

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A warning if you have a transfer flow tank. You tend to forget it has a fuel filter also. I changed mine right before the Jackson rally this year and again yesterday. I was surprised to see it caving in and full of gunk. Well I should have changed it before I left on the big trip since I ended up having over 10k (probably over 1,000 gallons) on the little filter. I also had what looked like rust in the filter so I called transfer flow and they said to keep an eye on it that I could have bacteria in the tank and it could start eating away at the tank. They recommend a bac killer called killem if I notice anymore problems with the filter. I went on ebay and ordered two more filters and will change the new one out when I get back from this 2,000 mile trip coming up in a couple weeks. The transfer pump did come on yesterday and pump 6 gallons out of a very low tank :( through the filter and looked good and clear in the filter.

My truck filter is doing fine and only dropped 16% on our long trip where the oil minder is showing 21% left :shock: Going in for an oil change tomorrow. :d

Will let you know after this next trip how the filter looks.
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dpalmer3 wrote:I agree with Mike, my new tank will be for my convenience. 60 plus gallons of gas will get me through a day's drive.
Then set up and go get gas, not having to negotiate the pumps around cars with the bird:thumbrt:
BIG plus! And no worries about "low canopies" over the pumps. :thumbrt:

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