I finally made a trip to a junkyard to find a replacement gas tank to
fit under the bed. It's from a mid 70's nissan pickup, pulled from
Blake's Small Car Wrecking in Erie, CO. I was thoroughly amazed that
this junkyard had a complete inventory of all the parts for all of the
vehicles in their yard, and the proprietor (Blake, I assume) had a
pretty good idea of where it all was. I'd recommend them to anyone in
the Denver area looking for replacement parts -- their number is
303-665-4312.
Now that I have my new tank, I'm trying to figure out how to attach it
to my '54 1/2-ton pickup. It's to go between the driveshaft and the
passenger-side frame rail, just at the front of the bed. Should I find
a set of metal straps with which to strap it to the passenger-side
frame rail and the bed crossmembers? Should I try to fabricate a
mounting bracket of some sort? What have people done in the past?
Thanks in advance,
Tim Lloyd, lloyd@lasp.colorado.edu
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