Plastic diesel tanks

[jav301]

I want to replace my rusty diesel tank with a plastic one as used for outboards. They all seem to have only a supply fitting with no way of fiitting a return line. Does anyone have experience of using/converting these tanks?

Thanks

Steve

 

[Salty John]

Fuel tanks are usually a polyethelene material that is ungluable and must be factory welded, so mods are a bit tricky. You can get plastic tanks as small as 25 litres from, amongst others, Vetus. About £100 with all the fittings I think.

 

[Forbsie]

I fitted one of These and I'm sure it came with a return fitting as standard.

Give Tek-Tanks a call as they are really helpful.

 

[Tisme]

I imagine that you are wanting to use a cheaper option and want to avoid the cost of purpose made tanks.....nothing wrong with that!

You may be able to fit a through fixing to the cap which you can then quickly fit the return line to.

 

[starboard]

Try here http://www.tek-tanks.com/

I fitted one of these and am very pleased with the quality of tank.

Paul.

 

[Talbot]

tek tanks have atock tanks at cheaper prices than the custom ones (but they are a bit thinner walled)

 

[bob_tyler]

Go to Tek Tanks. Talk to them and they will fit any "terminals" you want for flow, return and vent pipes in the size you specify.

Friendly and efficient.

Bob

 

[snowleopard]

If you want a portable outboard-style tank, talk to a Yanmar dealer about the tanks supplied for their diesel outbooards. If You want a fixed tank, try Vetus.

Apart from being corrosion-free, plastic tanks don't need guages, you can see the fuel level from outside!

 

[Dave99]

Yeah vetus do them butyou wold need the connection kit for diesels, and plastimo do them with the connection kit fitted. Cant find my vetus price list at the mo!

 

[Frontier]

I had to remove two very big steel tanks (by cutting them up) with no way of fitting new ones of the same size. Having a number of plastic tanks linked together was one option and the Tek Tank people were very helpful.

In the end I went for Duratank flexible tanks, because they were very easy to fit.

Duratank

I had a difficult installation and they were really helpful, and not expensive.

 

[jav301]

Thanks everyone. Invaluable information as ever.

Steve