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sam_1100

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:28 pm

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Thanks for the responses...
Sounds like ill have a new tank installed tomorrow afternoon after I visit a fellow Ausmini member.

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raisto2

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:44 pm

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CPOCSM wrote:

Got the two side by side and one is bigger than the other. Bought it at a swap meet in goulburn many moons ago and has a relief in the bottom to fit over the battery cover. It may have had a patch put in it but I am not stripping the paint to check.

Just bought a plastic RH tank on fleabay so will have to punch a hole in the other side to fit. Does anyone have a definitive way to make the template for drilling a hole?

Hooroo

Taken from Minifinity,

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Basically, you remove the left hand tank, draw a template of the hole and the edges of the panel onto a piece of paper, cut out the hole, and then flip it over and it mirrors the other side of the car...

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drmini in aust

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:57 pm

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raisto2 wrote:

CPOCSM wrote:

Just bought a plastic RH tank on fleabay so will have to punch a hole in the other side to fit. Does anyone have a definitive way to make the template for drilling a hole?

Hooroo

Taken from Minifinity,

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Yep, that method worked fine on mine.

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Panthersteve

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:29 pm

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CPOCSM wrote:

Got the two side by side and one is bigger than the other. Bought it at a swap meet in goulburn many moons ago and has a relief in the bottom to fit over the battery cover.

If it has a relief to go over the battery cover wouldn't it be a right hand tank :?:

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CPOCSM

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:21 pm

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Panthersteve wrote:

CPOCSM wrote:

Got the two side by side and one is bigger than the other. Bought it at a swap meet in goulburn many moons ago and has a relief in the bottom to fit over the battery cover.

If it has a relief to go over the battery cover wouldn't it be a right hand tank :?:

Why do you think I am buying a plastic one so I can have some of my boot space back? Got a 7.5 gal one on the left...there would be NO room if I put the 10 gal one in on the other side

Hooroo

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raisto2

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:40 pm

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CPOCSM wrote:

Panthersteve wrote:

CPOCSM wrote:

Got the two side by side and one is bigger than the other. Bought it at a swap meet in goulburn many moons ago and has a relief in the bottom to fit over the battery cover.

If it has a relief to go over the battery cover wouldn't it be a right hand tank :?:

Why do you think I am buying a plastic one so I can have some of my boot space back? Got a 7.5 gal one on the left...there would be NO room if I put the 10 gal one in on the other side

Hooroo

don't want to sound like a skeptic, but do you have a pic of the 10gal tank? next to a 5.5 or 7.5 by chance? more out of curiosity than anything, not trying to prove a point or anything.

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CPOCSM

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:15 pm

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For sure. Will have to dig it out of storage. And I have the LH out at the moment to do the hi lo stuff. Don't have a 5 gal one though so will have to use your imagination

Hooroo

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Lillee

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Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:46 pm

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CPOCSM wrote:

For sure. Will have to dig it out of storage. And I have the LH out at the moment to do the hi lo stuff. Don't have a 5 gal one though so will have to use your imagination

Hooroo

First time in nearly 10 years of mini ownership that I've ever heard of a 10 gal tank so I'd be interested in a pic too.

Imagine, 10 gal plus 5.5 gal right hand side, 15.5 gal of fuel! 60 Liters! I'd be able to drive 600kms without refilling!

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CPOCSM

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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:44 am

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Well really deflated now as I retrieved the RH tank and it is a butchers job using a RH tank with a 3 inch insert strap around it. The fellow I bought it off cut the tank an inch off the flange and welded the strip in then welded the cut half back to the strip.

Thought I had something special.... :cry:

and it leaks!! Water pissing out of the bottom of it(no wonder it was painted so very nicely!). It holds 10 gallons...just a pity it doesn't hold it for long.

I will crawl back under my rock now

Hooroo

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wallie

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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:17 am

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just while where on fuel tanks with the design of the mini tank would that mean using a fuel cell would be legal? i know using 1 in a car with a standard under car tank isnt but ive never looked into it in a car with an exposed tank in the boot & ive seen cells that are 20gallon, would only need to fill up once a month lol

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MINImal effort

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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:45 am

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What we want is one of the oddball "works" ones...

eg from the 1967 Targa Florio...

From : http://mk1-performance-conversions.co.uk/karstens_car.htm

(and from the previous post experience..... "Don't try this at home"

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raisto2

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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:05 pm

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CPOCSM wrote:

Well that blows! I'm sorry I asked you to look now..
Although, you could always try and fix it up, then you'd have a 'one off' 10 gal tank, not factory, but 10 gal none the less. :wink:

Alternatively, you could just turn it into some form of art ... maybe a letter box or the like?

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CPOCSM

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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:15 pm

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I am determined to fix it. Would be great for long trips but severely limits your boot space and makes getting the spare out a real pain in the butt! The dripping is coming from the recess underneath where the battery gap was made. Might have dropped it a few times in the four moves I have done since I bought it!

Hooroo

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drmini in aust

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Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:19 pm

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Fill with water, then cap it, invert & and weld that sucker up. :wink:

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