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Thread: "Cage" for the Fuel Tank

  1. #11
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    Ike, I think what TeA is saying is that the tanks hang lower than the sliders.




    Quote Originally Posted by leafsprung
    explain please
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  2. #12

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    unclear, obviously you need a skid plate if you are going to see rocks, not sure what that has to do with sliders though. The best solution is a custom tank with a 3/16 bottom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by leafsprung
    unclear, obviously you need a skid plate if you are going to see rocks, not sure what that has to do with sliders though. The best solution is a custom tank with a 3/16 bottom.
    After the description of that accident, my thinking for the sliders was to add custom sliders/side impact beams.

    If you added half inch thick T-beams right where your side skirts should go, welded that to some more heavy steel that is mounted to the frame rails and then added similar thickness steel to cover the tank bottoms, well then getting side swiped might not be such a worry. Although, I'd pity you if you ever had to remove the tanks.

    There has to be some sort of middle ground in there some where.
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    Cheers!
    Last edited by Tim Smith; 05-25-2007 at 08:54 PM.

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