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I have been digging into this over the past couple of days and I have determined the only way to do this for the newer styles, is to build one from scratch with some kind of transfer pump or gravity feed kit, like the one pictured below. The reason behind this is the EPA and evaporation and gas leaking and blah blah blah, but also the fact that the flash point and combustion temp are much much lower for gasoline than it is for diesel. So for the time being from what I've seen, and please correct me if I'm wrong, it is either buy a diesel tank and hope for the best or have one fabricated yourself, or the final option we will have to live with our Miata sized gas tanks for the foreseeable future. 
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Did you build this tank or had it custom made?[emoji1318]


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55 minutes ago, Viktorrocks15 said:


Did you build this tank or had it custom made?emoji1318.png


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It is not my tank actually, I found it on this forum on another thread and it actually came from another forum all together that I could not track down to get dimensions and more info on. Wish I knew more! 

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It is not my tank actually, I found it on this forum on another thread and it actually came from another forum all together that I could not track down to get dimensions and more info on. Wish I knew more! 


It really look more of custom build.. I really like to have one.


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Just now, Viktorrocks15 said:

 


It really look more of custom build.. I really like to have one.


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I am assuming it is a custom build, looks like it even got a coat of Line-X to match the bed. I am thinking about working on something very similar to that one soon, I work at a large steel fab company so it should be pretty easy for me to get my hands on all the things needed to build it. I will post an update if I figure out the dimensions and best way to do it! 

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I am assuming it is a custom build, looks like it even got a coat of Line-X to match the bed. I am thinking about working on something very similar to that one soon, I work at a large steel fab company so it should be pretty easy for me to get my hands on all the things needed to build it. I will post an update if I figure out the dimensions and best way to do it! 


Let me know when make an extra one..[emoji1307]


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1 minute ago, Viktorrocks15 said:

 


Let me know when make an extra one..emoji1307.png


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Lol I will do it for sure! Oughta start making em and selling em, looks like people would buy them! :cool:

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Lol I will do it for sure! Oughta start making em and selling em, looks like people would buy them! :cool:


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When it comes to our trucks we’ll buy anything that makes them apart from others.. IMG_0013.thumb.JPG.ca140f24da72d1b30c312fa8be22fb05.JPG
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I custom build this light pods bar to make it the look like the Navy spec ops edition since GM made this only for this truck and I wanted so I build it.


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So i got to use the tank and worked great with no CEL. Gravity fed to the filler neck.

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