I am using a Steve Parker kit to install a Peugeot diesel in my 88. It
has dual tanks also. In the instructions with the kit, Parker says to
choose one tank as the "primary" tank and run the return to it. Start
off using this tank and when empty, switch to your "secondary" tank.
The return line will continue pumping fuel to the "primary" while
the "secondary" is in use. You will end up with about a gallon of
returned fuel in the "primary" when you get ready to refuel. Then all
you have to remember to do is switch back after fuelling.
Larry Smith
Chester, VA
----- Original Message -----
From: Bradley_Harris@aigag.com
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2002 9:52 am
Subject: [lro] Fuel Switch
>
> Since I am converting my 109 petrol to diesel I need to work out
> the fuel
> return lines to the tanks. I have the twin military front tanks
> with the
> selector switch on the front of the seat box. I can think of a few
> different options:
>
> 1) Route the fuel return line to one tank. The other tank would be an
> auxiliary tank with an electric fuel pump mounted between the two to
> transfer fuel from the auxiliary tank to the main tank. The
> current switch
> would not be switching fuel, it would just allow me to switch
> which sender
> is being used to check the fuel level in both tanks.
>
> 2) Mount a second military fuel switch for the return line. I
> would need to
> remember to move both of them when switching from tank to tank. I
> don'tlike this idea.
>
> 3) Purchase a fuel switch that would switch both the fuel feed
> line and the
> return line and the sender being used for he gauge. Anybody know
> of a
> company that makes one of those? I want a mechanical switch, not
> electric.This would be the cleanest if I could find the proper
> fuel selector switch.
>
> 4) Mount a 109 rear diesel tank and use that as my main tank. The
> fronttanks would be twin auxiliary tanks. I would have an electric
> fuel pump
> that could transfer fuel from either of the front two tanks to the
> reartank using the current fuel selector switch. I don't have a
> hole in the
> rear crossmember for a PTO since it is the military frame but I
> need to see
> if frame modifications would be necessary to mount the tank. I
> like the
> idea of extra fuel capacity, but I don't like the extra cost of
> the rear
> fuel tank and the fittings for an external filler cap.
>
> I don't want to get rid of any of the current fuel tanks. Any
> other ideas
> or tips?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad H.
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