quote:Originally posted by LF - TP 2511:quote:posted Oct 28, 2015 5:18 AM
Using the bottom drain plug is just too low. There are only a couple of fittings that will fit the drain and they will hang down in harms way.
2511 had a bottom feed fuel system on the stock steel tank when purchased by me over 50,000 miles ago. I have never had any issue with that bottom fitting. It does not become the lowest part of the chassis, sits just behind a substantial chassis brace and would only be subject to damage from some very random road debris or if one was playing 4X4 bouncing over a rough country road with an object that somehow cleared the chassis and managed to come straight up into the bottom of the tank.
I have talked with other owners with bottom feed fuel systems and they likewise have never had any problems.
I have personally never found anyone with a bad experience with a bottom feed tank fitting. I realize that in theory this could be a problem but in actual practice it appears to be a unfounded Pantera myth.
Larry
Hey, listen, if you want to run around the jungle with an elephant dick hanging out fine.
This is the fitting. It's 18mm x something thread to a -8 hose.
Just threading the thing in stresses out the 20 gauge steel of the tank and the weld of the bung.
Once you get it in there, the entire tank is subject to being yanked around by anything it catches on.
You can do what you want but personally I wear a supporter and a cup. I also recommend that to all of my catchers and goalies. All personal preference I suppose?
I think the answer is obvious, not that "I've been smoking for years when I pump gas and nothin' ever happened yet?"
Whatever Dude.
