Auxillary OL Fuel tank not working!?

[Steve223]

Hello Together,

I had the OL rear bar and auxiliary fuel tank (with pump) fitted last week one day before leaving to Goulburn River NP.

Filled up what I thought both tanks (single nozzle supposed to fill both tanks equal) and though to myself does not seem to make such a big change at the cash register.

So in NP having still around 200k's in main tank I think better use/test the pump and fill up main tank before doing more local excursions.

However pump runs for a couple of minutes but only seems to add 10-15 L to main tank before becoming louder (indicating nothing to pump anymore) so all excursions cancelled and today back to Mudgee to fill up.

Having around 180k's left and auxillary tank empty I fill up to overflow and get 80l in the tanks's ?? maybe I'm missing something but I should have gotten around 140l = 160l minus the ~20l left in main tank.

Any suggestions? Is there a "secret" switch I have to flick to fill both tanks?

Gordon's instructions where fill as normal and both tanks will fill up equally and then pump fuel over once main tank is nearly empty but that does not seem to work?

Cheers

Steve

PS hope you all had a Great Christmas....

We had some beautiful thunderstorms and so much rain...........

[~Rich~]

Does it not have a "Y" filler tube?
The Brown Davis has this setup, front one is to the main tank / rear one the auxillary tank.

[AnD3rew]

I have the long ranger one but I also thought they were the same set up to fill. If you look inside the filler you should see two necks inside the main one, one to the front and one to the back, guide the nozzle into the front one to fill the original tank and when ful take the nozzle out and then guide it into the rear one to fill the aux tank. That's how mine works anyhow.

[Steve223]

Does it not have a "Y" filler tube?
The Brown Davis has this setup, front one is to the main tank / rear one the auxillary tank.

nop, from the installation instructions it has a fork further down but you can actually not see it from top

[Steve223]

when I asked Gordon initially how it would work he also mentioned the Y filler but when picking up the car he said no it's a different set up and both tanks would fill equally from one inlet.

Just checked again definitely no second inlet visible where I could direct nozzle to.

really a bummer as I was counting on second tank for AULRO table land trip on 2nd of Jan.

[AnD3rew]

Have you actually used the fuel in the Auxilliary tank? It should have been filled on installation to check for leaks. Sound from your original post that maybe the aux tank is still full which would explain why it isn't hitting you at the pump. Maybe a problem with the pump or a blocked or crimped fuel line from the aux tank.

[Graeme]

Any chance the pump is pumping in the wrong direction?

[Steve223]

hm, don't think so as some fuel got in the main tank and extended tank got empty very quick, my assumption is it was not assembled correctly and somehow not much fuel is actually going in the extended tank so not much to pump over, just hope Opposite Lock is open tomorrow and Gordon fixes it before NYE.

very annoying to having to cut our family camping trip short

[Tombie]

Annoying when this happens...

But again the rule...

Don't work on a vehicle less than a week before a trip

[Steve223]

Annoying when this happens...

But again the rule...

Don't work on a vehicle less than a week before a trip

Yes totally agree..., my bad taking our family trip as the test ground (don't tell my wife I did) but really wanted the tank for January trip and knew on family trip we would not really need it, just glad I tested it there and not on highland trip.

Still would be nice if people actually would test what they put in.