Can you retrofit dual tanks on a truck that didn't have them? I love my truck but when I take it out on a long trip I have to keep stopping to fill the tank. Thanks.

 

Well it might help to know what your truck is..

 

Doh! It's a '96 F150 long bed 5.0 automatic.

 

Yes, go to the JY and find a truck with the same wheelbase as yours, and get the bed (for the 2nd fuel door), the other tank & filler neck, the fuel lines, the chassis wiring harness, and the tank select switch.

You can try to carve a hole in your bed & weld in the other fuel door, but it'll probably look like krap. You can add a couple of wires to your chassis harness, if you know what you're doing.

 

I'll take that as a no. Thanks for all of your help.

 

Actually wouldn't be all that hard, I just took my bed off(longbed), and putting another one on wouldn't be all that bad. Then it's literally all you think it would take, the other tank, pump, and wiring\hoses to hook it up.

 

Unfortunately that won't work. The truck has 60k miles and the bed is rust free. But thanks. I thought maybe you could get the dual tank setup and just have only one filler. Maybe I'll look into an aftermarket setup.

 

Aftermarket would be MUCH more expensive, more work, less reliable, and less safe. You might be able to do it with 1 filler, but I don't think it's a good idea. If your bed is that good, it's worth a lot of money - maybe close to what a 2-filler bed will cost you, so you might recoup a lot of that cost, especially if you have a place to store the bed until it sells.

 

Hey Berno and Steve83, have you checked out transferflow.com? Inbed fuel tank systems.

 

No, I have a Bronco. And even if I had a pickup, I wouldn't want to permanently fill the bed, and waste the space under the truck, and raise the CG, and spend double/triple the money...

 

There may be simpler answers to more fuel capacity that may have been overlooked.

The same year Bronco had a 38 gallon single tank mounted in the same area as the stock pickup rear tank. The swap is relatively easy to do with stock parts. With this swap, you are not getting into swapping beds, doing wiring, etc. The only thing that you lose is the spare tire mounted under the tank, as the bigger tank uses that area for more fuel.

Another thing you may want to look at is an aftermarket large capacity single tank. Jeff's Bronco Graveyard sells a 45 gallon aftermarket tank that would replace the current rear tank. I forget who the manufacturer is, but this is another idea that would work without getting into the bed swap and wiring hassles.

Just food for thought.

 

No Bronco was ever factory-equipped with a 38g tank; either 25 (I've never actually seen one) or 32.

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