If you want to take a look at the link below, it is at Bass Pro Shops. You may or may not know that they have a lot of hunting, fishing and boating things. One of my friends just purchased one of these fuel tanks to put in the back of his small pickup for extended trips. His truck has a fiberglass top over the back so the sun will not affect it, not sure that it would have anyway. Also do a search, there are many places that sell tanks like these of all kinds of shapes. MOELLER is the manufacurer of these and as I said there are a lot of dealers for this company's tanks.
Look down the list of sizes and you may find a tank that suits your needs for a KR, these tanks are lite weight and very tough, his came with a fuel level sender, I have no idea whether they have baffles in them or not, I did not check, I guess a guy could add fire proof fuel tank foam as a baffle if they do not have baffles. An installation option for a smaller tank could be like a Wittman Tailwind. As most of you may know, the fuselage is made from steel tubing covered with fabric. They have a steel tube that runs across the fuselage just behind the instrument panel and of course one across the the top of the firewall. They use at least two wide straps covered on top with rubber between the strap and tank typically, the straps run front to rear under the fuel tank from the top firewall tube to the tube that crosses the fuselage just behind the instrument panel. Hope this makes sense. Just for further information on my friends tank installation in the back of his truck. He installed a small electric pump he purchased from Spruce so he could flip a switch in his cab while traveling and pump fuel into his regular truck fuel tank (yes he is a pilot). He brazed a tube into the side of his filler neck below the plate that holds the spring loaded door for the fuel station pump nozzle so the fuel would just enter the tank where you normally put fuel in. He vented out the bottom under the truck bed. When he tested it the first time he found that once he turned on the fuel tank and pumped some gas into the truck fuel tank inlet to test it while traveling down the road and then turned it off the siphon system took over and continued to siphon fuel through the electric pump out of his tank until it filled his tank and the fillerneck and put the brazed in entry tube in fuel. He is now looking for a fuel pump that will not let fuel pass when turned off. The second thing that happened, his vent out of the auxilary tank caused his engine light to come on, so he has now T'd his auxilary tank vent line into the trucks factory vent line. That should fix the truck engine light problem but I guess we will see after he tests it. This may also fix his siphon problem but I really have not seen what he did so I have no idea. I may give a further report if anyone is interested. Larry Howell http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_90762_225012001_225000000_225012000?cmCat=CROSSSELL_SEARCH ________________________________ From: Mike Taglieri <miket_...@verizon.net> To: KRnet <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Mon, July 5, 2010 8:11:15 PM Subject: Re: KR> Update from the archives - Polyester fuel tanks For the main tank, I've been wondering if the molded polyethylene tank used in the Sonex could be used in a KR, since it seems roughly the same size. Polyethylene is extremely durable, and is used in some dirt-bike gas tanks.
