He Built A New Fuel Tank For His Cub Tractor

He Built A New Fuel Tank For His Cub Tractor TRACTORS Made-It-Myself Jesse LeBlanc Gibson La recently bought an early 1970 IH Cub tractor equipped with a belly-mounted mower The fuel tank on it was rusty with about an inch of thick sludge on the bottom so he built a new aluminum fuel tank and inserted it inside the existing tank The hood and tank on the tractor were originally designed as a one-piece unit “I removed the hood and tank then turned the tank upside down and cut out the bottom 3/4 in from the sidewalls ” says LeBlanc “I sandblasted both the hood and tank with a fine aggregate and also primed and painted the tank both inside and outside Then I built a new tank 1/2 in smaller than the cut-out old one leaving a 1-in overlap on the bottom so that I could fasten it on with self-tapping screws ” The tank’s original fill tube had an inside diameter of 2 3/8 in which is the same as a standard 2-in pipe So LeBlanc temporarily installed the tank back in the tractor then put a 3-in long threaded aluminum nipple in the original fill hole and marked where to cut and weld it He used a pvc threaded cap with a 1/16-in vent hole through the threads as the filler cap “I drilled and tapped a 1/4-in NPT hole in the bottom of the tank and then installed the fuel valve assembly My fuel problem was fixed and the new tank looks original It just doesn’t hold quite as much fuel as the old one ” says LeBlanc Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Jesse LeBlanc 248 Old Spanish Trail Gibson La 70356 ph 225 287-0679; jesseleblanc33@yahoo com

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