Thread: Fuel tank guard options

Originally Posted by bell1975

I got some prices from British Motor Imports today on the Alloy vs Steel Terrafirma fuel tank guards as well as their transmission guard.

They make Scott's prices look very, very good. And have made my decision equally simple.

The TF 868 Transmission guard is $340 + GST.

And the options on the fuel tank guards come in at:
Alloy TF 865 $460 + GST (7.7kgs)
Steel TF 864 $375 + GST (12.7kgs)

Those prices are ex-NSW somewhere I believe. $40 freight to my place in SE Qld.

I'd highly recomend Landy Boys. The pricing was good and the products were airfreighted to me! I have waited longer for items to be delivered within Australia! They took 9 days for the fuel tank guard to arrive, and I am still waiting on the transmission guard to be delivered today (don't know why UPS separated them)

I'm not sure an alloy fuel tank guard would be that good. It would certainly provide some protection, but I can't image it would be as strong and durable or handle sliding on it too well...

Originally Posted by bell1975

Any idea what the rear bar on the vehicle you posted the underbody shot is?

I like how the side panels are protected all the way down to the mudflaps. But i can't see any indicators on the LHS of the bar.

Could it be a D1?

[goes off to search for underbody photo of D1...]

No idea. I just stole the picture off Google Images.

Keep in mind many tank guards have holed tanks by stones getting between them and the tank and rubbing through.

In all my offroading I've barely scratched my tanks on all my vehicles and I rock crawl a lot..

Originally Posted by twr7cx

No idea. I just stole the picture off Google Images.

Ha! So easy to do...I'll stick the image into their Image search and see where the trail leads me.

Please stick up a photo of yours when they're both installed. I'm keen to see them.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Keep in mind many tank guards have holed tanks by stones getting between them and the tank and rubbing through.

In all my offroading I've barely scratched my tanks on all my vehicles and I rock crawl a lot..

Thanks for that info. It was not something I'd considered. Probably especially relevant given the plastic tank on the D2.

The transmission guard is going to be more useful for the sort of terrain I'm covering. I look at the lines running under there and think "One day...before I snag those buggers...I'll stick a guard on..."

IIRC the L/C 79 Series utes I drive at work have a guard on both the rear tank and also on the bottom of the transmission as standard. I don't know what's under the D3 and D4 in the way of protection as stock.

Originally Posted by twr7cx

No idea. I just stole the picture off Google Images.

Apologies for the useless post but I had to share this (and I'm procrastinating...got window trims to paint...and I was over the painting a while ago after all the easy stuff was done with the roller...)

When I searched for that image using Google Image search it gives us the sites where it is found. Great. But the classic is their "visually similar images" result. (No idea if that link is going to work on someone else's computer)

A Boeing 787 and a dead fish. Yep, that's exactly what the arse end of a Discovery looks like.