Pictures of gas tank mounting on a 400 Suburban

[Skeeters65 45]

Need a good picture of how the gas tank mounts. 

 

Thanks

[WHX?? 51,820]

I think we are gonna need pics from you skeeter!.... I don't have any at the moment but there should be two straps spot welded to the boutom side of the hood just fore and aft of the filler hole. They do break off so we have seen them pop riveted back on. They join together with a machine screw & nut on the underside. Kinda hard to explain but I am sure someone will chime in with a pic

[Racinbob 11,952]

Here's what Jim is talking about. Usually the straps  are thinner but these are what was on mine. The thicker straps lowered the tank a bit so I extended the filler.

 

 

Search around here and you'll find some are fabricated to the frame so the hood doesn't bear the weight of a full tank.

[WHX?? 51,820]

You do/did have abit of custom work in that girl then don't ya Bob! What no too cool for old school leaky sediment bowl???

41 minutes ago, Racinbob said:

hood doesn't bear the weight of a full tank

The reason we find them broke of!

[Skeeters65 45]

Ok thanks guys. 

My hood doesn't have the straps in place. I guess I will be welding the straps back on. 

 

Not too keen on pop rivets. 

 

Thanks

Edited August 19, 2016 by Skeeters65

[WHX?? 51,820]

9 minutes ago, Skeeters65 said:

Not too keen on pop rivets

I hear ya skeeter..... did that to one of mine for a temp quick fix and it didn't hold!

[Racinbob 11,952]

24 minutes ago, WHX7 said:

You do/did have abit of custom work in that girl then don't ya Bob! What no too cool for old school leaky sediment bowl???

The reason we find them broke of!

You'll notice that in the Suburban 400 help needed thread there is a sediment. I was going to use one but changed my mind for those exact reasons. Nobody noticed that there wasn't a fuel like connected in that pic. I was rushing to get enough together and get a picture for the big show banner. I had to push it to the posing location

[WHX?? 51,820]

3 minutes ago, Racinbob said:

that there wasn't a fuel like connected

AH... lol...the old placebo sedimnet bowl for the pic trick!! Save yer money Bob, got one for 12 bucks off flea bay and wouldn't stop leaking, bowl had a defect & had to use a bowl off a junk spare!

[Racinbob 11,952]

Not really Jim. At the time I thought I was going to use it. That's where I got mine too. After getting home from the show and finishing it up I just went with an inline filter. No leaky gas on the paint won out over the cool factor.