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callmemarsh

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• Apr 11, 2018

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Aero Fuel Tank:

 

broncoitis

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• Sep 12, 2022

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Great work! No simple tast that you have jumped in with both feet! Keep it up! Lookin Good!

If you built the tank great job. Looks very good. I remember building my tank and over looked the step in the back for the crossmember on the body. What a bummer that was for me your tank looks good.

 

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• Sep 12, 2022

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I’ve got to ask this as I am contemplating building a fuel cell myself for my ‘77. What is the in-tank fuel sending unit out of? I’m assuming it ain’t a stock EB sender.
By the way, looks like you did a great job on the fabrication

Randy

 

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In the text it mentions being an Aero brand tank. That’s a company out of Southern California that makes tanks for a lot of different vehicles.
I thought I remembered the sending unit and electric pump area being recessed though, but maybe they made a change.

Notice in this case there are no side brackets but there are reinforcing plates. It was ordered that way so the installer can weld brackets to suit the individual bronco.

 

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The fuel sending unit can probably be any type you choose, but they typically come with the standard swingarm type universal aftermarket unit that you fine-tune during the installation.
It would be the Ford 73 to 10 ohm range model to match the factory gauges, but otherwise is just a basic swingarm/float type.

 

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DirtDonk said:

In the text it mentions being an Aero brand tank. That’s a company out of Southern California that makes tanks for a lot of different vehicles.
I thought I remembered the sending unit and electric pump area being recessed though, but maybe they made a change.

Notice in this case there are no side brackets but there are reinforcing plates. It was ordered that way so the installer can weld brackets to suit the individual bronco.

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Thanks, DD. I obviously read fast enough that I smooth missed that the tank was named. Maybe my thoughts of building a fuel cell are unnecessary. Lol


Randy