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| Harpo |
 Oct 23 2011, 12:48 PM
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Can early & late gas tanks be swapped? After I saw this photo of a hood with a hole cut in it for the gas cap I want to do this with my car. A chromed early cap would look a lot better than the late plastic cap. What do you think?
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| jaxdream |
Oct 26 2011, 09:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 974 Joined: 8-July 08 From: North Central Tennessee Member No.: 9,270 Region Association: South East States |
rdauenhauer is right , but if you mod the early tank vs the late tank ( with the platic fill / expn tank ), you can install the later plastic expansion tank and cap system. See pics of early tanks , they have a tab on the end that the steel xpn tank bolts to , also tabs for the charcoal canitster . A simple mod to the middle tab would make it possible to mount the plastic on the early tank.The bolt patterns of both tank mountings is the same , just the xpn tank mountings is different. To mount the late plastic xpn tank to the early tank ,you need to cut the tab off the end of tank , and fab a mount for the middle of tank to secure the inboard end of the plastic xpn tank .
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Harpo Gas tank interchangeability Oct 23 2011, 12:48 PM
Mikey914 I had an early tank that I swapped to late hardwar... Oct 23 2011, 01:20 PM rdauenhauer yes & no.
If you swap the entire unit yes.
if ... Oct 23 2011, 02:30 PM
jaxdream
yes & no.
If you swap the entire unit yes.
if... Oct 23 2011, 02:35 PM Harpo I was going to either powder coat (near chrome) or... Oct 24 2011, 09:52 AM mark21742 Were you going for a stock look, or a nice racer s... Oct 26 2011, 02:23 PM |
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