funny fuel tanks
Hi Bob and Mike
I have fuel tanks with the b rass cover plate and fuel changeover tap on my C8 11 cab. But also have them on an early 11 cab s/m 2002 15 cwt. This truck originally came with a steel dropside body as described. However also cluttering up the yard is a later 11 cab c15 but this time with the later style of fuel tank with the extended filler.... This secod truck is only about 2500 units later
in the sequence.
I have also previously recovered a couple of these tanks from an 11 cab Quad where the fillers come up through the floor inside...
Interestingly I have some where read an account of using this dual fuel tank system, each with a serve tap. So THREE fuel taps on trucks in the desert where there were frequent problems with trucks running out of fuel because the wrong tap was selected! Though the tanks may have been full the reserve on which it was running was exhausted! It is a cinfusing system and all but the tanks on the C8 here ahve been modified to give the full capacity and no change over tap with a reserve....
Nice story though!!
regards
nick
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