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There is a bunch of wasted/available space all over my Xterra: under the back seats, under the back floormat, on the sides of the back floormat, in the roof storage box, in the roof rack... There are lots of places to tuck away some extra fuel and other goods, but they are all irregular shapes.Originally Posted by Irving
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Last time I sat on top of a gas tank in a vehicle I was in the TC seat in a HMMWV.
Last edited by rbeau30; 02-22-2014 at 11:51.
That's what I thought. Are you comfortable with having an unsecured, soft sided fuel tank inside the passenger compartment?
"There are no finger prints under water."
It will certainly be secured and protected. I'm all about risk mitigation. I think the ideal storage space is on the roof in this built in ventilated storage compartment:
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
You really dont want to store gas inside your car. The smell, the risk of leak/fire a collision accident, and so on.
And it contains ingredients known to the State of California to cause Cancer.
You will definitely have to get something that is strong to internal pressures. Gasoline has a large swing as far as expansion/contraction in heat/cold environments.It will certainly be secured and protected. I'm all about risk mitigation. I think the ideal storage space is on the roof in this built in ventilated storage compartment:
Fill up on cold days! You get more!
Okay I'm going to geek out here. From Wikipedia:
EDIT: Okay well pasting the table did not work... But an example is that gasoline has a Volumetric Thermal Expansion Coeficient of 950 in the same conditions that water does at 207 and ethanol has 750. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal...ious_materials
Just leave a gas bottle out in the sun for a few hours next to a water jug and see how it reacts.
Last edited by rbeau30; 02-22-2014 at 12:03.
Very true. The bottom of that storage rack is flexible, so I figured it would be able to handle any heat expansion. Seeing as the top of that compartment is black, I'm sure it will got HOT in there in the summer... Surround it with a Mylar blanket? Lol
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
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