Thread: Auxiliary tank recommendation for D4

I have hunted through the photos to find a few shots, but none are as good as one I should have taken from above the car. I hope you can get the idea.

It is a short Front Runner rack. A small awning. Two Maxtrax. A little gas bottle. And 60 litres of fuel.

Yes I'm a little over the limit. The load is compact and did not affect the handling as far as I could tell.

And yes; I was wrong about the weight of a wheel and tyre. Mine weigh 36kg.

The first picture shows the fuel hose draining into the tank. The other shots are of the car from various angles while we had fun in the desert.

I ran two Boabs under a false floor when doing the CSR. Comfortable 200 ltr +



Cheers,

Gordon

That looks neat and tidy Gordon. It would be a good solution for when a longer range is required. How did you address the venting issue? My Boab tank had a short simple vent which I changed for the optional vent you can see in my pics.

There is a vent solution for internally placed Boabs that vents to the car fuel tank. Did you use that?

And.....Did you ever measure the actual volume of your Boab tanks? I find that the tank is full when the purchased volume of fuel is 55 or 56 litres. ???

As it was a manual fill (via a 12V boat pump), I didn't vent - just loosened the caps when filling (similar to a jerry can). I got 124 ltr into both tanks, according to the station pump.

The false floor was set at the same level as the lower lip of the upper rear hatch, so fairly easy to load in and out, and the tanks were out of sight.

Cheers,

Gordon

Does anyone have a LRA 108L tank in their D3/4 and if so what are your thoughts?

Hi Graeme,
I have Long range automotive on my D4. No probs at all but I thought it was 104 litres.
I can just feel the extra weight when the tank s full. Only thing I will say that when filling main tank from aux tank I nearly always forget to turn the pump off when the aux tank s depleted. Could do with a buzzer to alert me.

Jools

Recently fitted the long ranger and so far so good. Have filled and emptied 3 times so far just on intercity trips and around town to check for leaks / problems etc, so far none. The reliability of the pump shouldn't be a deciding factor as guess what, you have one under the bonnet and I'm sure most wouldn't be thinking of that as an issue. I have ordered a 2nd pump which I will carry in my spares bag if its ever required.
Gauge is good only got distracted the first time when I was transferring into a half full tank with a full aux tank and forgot it was going. Narrowly averted an Exxon Valdez!

There seems to be quite a few Long Ranger fitted but a scarcity of LRA's. I'm favouring seperate fills along with a decent transfer pump so with the LRA effectively $150 less than the Brown Davis, I'd like to know more about it and any short-comings.

I'm still undecided on getting a tank because a small roof rack will then be required to carry a 2nd spare as on those occasions when extra fuel is mandatory, so is a 2nd spare. I need to research roof rack options further.