goingbush
28th December 2011, 10:10 PM
My Td5 Defender already has 45l Frontrunner gravity tank installed.
75L (std def tank) plus 45L gives 120L , still not enough for our big trip
I bought a 50L BrownDavis aux tank from ebay, $295 which required a hole to be cut in the floor for the filler, I finished this off with a flat Marine screwcap fitting ($2.50 from BCF) .
The biggest pain with the existing Frontrunner aux tank inplace was finding somewhere to run the vent & transfer pump pipes from the new tank
The best solution was to cut the 2" rubber fill tube and add in a 2" section of exhaust pipe with a couple of 3/8 brass barbs silver soldered in. This did not quite allow the Td5 filler cap flange to go home so I mounted it on a 1/2" thick green kitchen chopping board cut to shape. Defendoor cover still fits, just.
I used a Marine fuel filter / water trap from BCF $45.00 including mount, the filter by chance is the same as a 1HZ oil filter cruiser so easily available if stuck. For a Transfer pump I used a new AC Delco 6.5L Chev Diesel lift pump $55.00 (ebay is great) .
170L all up should give us the range between fills that we are looking for, not bad for change out of $500
pics to help explain
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/129.jpg
frontrunner fill tube
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/130.jpg
modified fill tube
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/131.jpg
chopping board extension
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/132.jpg
brass barbs
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/133.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/134.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/01/609.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/135.jpg
75L (std def tank) plus 45L gives 120L , still not enough for our big trip
I bought a 50L BrownDavis aux tank from ebay, $295 which required a hole to be cut in the floor for the filler, I finished this off with a flat Marine screwcap fitting ($2.50 from BCF) .
The biggest pain with the existing Frontrunner aux tank inplace was finding somewhere to run the vent & transfer pump pipes from the new tank
The best solution was to cut the 2" rubber fill tube and add in a 2" section of exhaust pipe with a couple of 3/8 brass barbs silver soldered in. This did not quite allow the Td5 filler cap flange to go home so I mounted it on a 1/2" thick green kitchen chopping board cut to shape. Defendoor cover still fits, just.
I used a Marine fuel filter / water trap from BCF $45.00 including mount, the filter by chance is the same as a 1HZ oil filter cruiser so easily available if stuck. For a Transfer pump I used a new AC Delco 6.5L Chev Diesel lift pump $55.00 (ebay is great) .
170L all up should give us the range between fills that we are looking for, not bad for change out of $500
pics to help explain
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/129.jpg
frontrunner fill tube
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/130.jpg
modified fill tube
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/131.jpg
chopping board extension
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/132.jpg
brass barbs
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/133.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/134.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/01/609.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/12/135.jpg