20 gallon fuel tank for 74 scamp

[74@scamp]

Hello everybody, gonna be fixing some rust in the trunk area of my scamp and haven't decided if I want to fix the spare tire wrll or make my own trunk floor. Has anyone put a 20 gallon fuel tank from a 68 satillite in a scamp?

I don't mind doing. Some fab work to make it fit.

 

[Professor Fate]

That's a rear fill tank, isn't it?

 

[junkyardhero]

i think some folks have used mustang tanks in that manner-- making top of the tank the floor of the trunk.

i'd take it one further and go with a lip or rail mount cell like this:

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fairly easy to mount and you can box it in for protection. change the filler top plate, use an adapter and you could potentially use your stock filler neck and cap.

 

[RustyRatRod]

I'm not. Sure. I haven't seen. Anybody do. That yet.

 

[74@scamp]

That's a rear fill tank, isn't it?

I'm not sure if the satellite tanks are a rear fill or not. It would be really nice to run a 20 gallon tank and still retain the factory fuel gauge

 

[74@scamp]

i think some folks have used mustang tanks in that manner-- making top of the tank the floor of the trunk.

i'd take it one further and go with a lip or rail mount cell like this:

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fairly easy to mount and you can box it in for protection. change the filler top plate, use an adapter and you could potentially use your stock filler neck and cap.

That's a good idea, it would be nice to run a tank that looks a little more original but I do like that idea. I wonder if they make a sending unit for that tank that will work with the original fuel gauge

 

[72bluNblu]

Satellite tank is a rear fill and there’s really no good way to route that fill location on an A body.

The B-body tanks are also longer, you have to cut and kick out the rear crossmember to do it. I run a Charger tank in my duster, it retained the quarter panel fill location. But yeah, I had to kick out the rear crossmember, fabricate new J bolt mounting locations, and extend the gas tank mounting straps to do it.

It gets you a 19 gallon tank that’s actually narrower, so it frees up some room for the tail pipes. But yeah, you have to get rid of the spare tire well, kick out the rear crossmember, and make everything you need to mount the tank. The filler neck is close enough to use the same hole in the trunk floor and makes it to the factory quarter panel fill location, but it’s far enough off that the rubber boot doesn’t work very well.

 

[74@scamp]

Satellite tank is a rear fill and there’s really no good way to route that fill location on an A body.

The B-body tanks are also longer, you have to cut and kick out the rear crossmember to do it. I run a Charger tank in my duster, it retained the quarter panel fill location. But yeah, I had to kick out the rear crossmember, fabricate new J bolt mounting locations, and extend the gas tank mounting straps to do it.

It gets you a 19 gallon tank that’s actually narrower, so it frees up some room for the tail pipes. But yeah, you have to get rid of the spare tire well, kick out the rear crossmember, and make everything you need to mount the tank. The filler neck is close enough to use the same hole in the trunk floor and makes it to the factory quarter panel fill location, but it’s far enough off that the rubber boot doesn’t work very well.

Got ya, thanks for the info, I will take a look at a charger tank. Did you use the sending unit from the charger tank? Does it work with the factory fuel gauge?

 

[72bluNblu]

Got ya, thanks for the info, I will take a look at a charger tank. Did you use the sending unit from the charger tank? Does it work with the factory fuel gauge?

It's a '68-70 Charger tank

You can see the new crossmember edge where the J-bolts are, it takes up most of the space behind the rear bumper. The J-bolts are fairly visible under the car, my car sits low so you'd have to be on the ground but on a car that sits higher they'd be more obvious. Yes, you have to use the sending unit that goes with the tank. Pretty much all Mopars of the era use the same output for the sender so it works fine with the gauge.

It's more than a bit of fab work to get it done, it's a very tight fit even with the kicked out rear crossmember. If I had to do it over I would use a Mustang tank like others have done. Here's a nice one, he added a filler tube to the tank to use the factory fill location. And you have to reinforce the floor to support the tank because of the way the mustang tank mounts, but I think this is a cleaner solution. It's easy enough to deal with the sender output, there are aftermarket fuel gauge tuning add ons and really it's just a matter a resistor if you're converting one output to another.

Doug's '68 Dart