Now there's an idea with merrit. BlackBerry service provided by Nextel -----Original Message----- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:22:25 To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: fuel capacity Tequilla? Oil? Gasoline? How about 60 liters of tequilla and bring them and the tank to madi gras and we will figure something out. Peter Albarian <pcalbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Water in a gas tank? Ouch, I can hear the rust accelerating now. I'll pull one out of storage and figure something out one of these days. BlackBerry service provided by Nextel -----Original Message----- From: sammie smith Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:33:39 To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: fuel capacity Peter: All I can say is what's in the manuals. Can find no indication in any that it was anything other than 40. How bout an experiment. First find an empty 1 liter bottle. don't have an empty well empty one. Then fill it with water and empty into the 67 tank you have. Continue process till tank is full and keep count. Peter Albarian wrote: Hey Sammie, I respect your opinion, and have a feeling my tanks are somewhere between 40 and 60 liter. The '67 only tanks I have are not modified in any way. Both came out of very original and complete '67s that were horribly rusty, and at least one still had the original engine that looked like it had never previously been removed. I remember at least one of them having the larger radio hole and reverse lights (both second half of production changes) but seem to remember the other being a late first half without those changes. I also think they were both 13w deluxes. I kept the tanks because I liked the idea of higher fuel capacity without modifications, but haven't used them yet. I really don't have a clue what a '68 Bay gas tank looks like, but I've never looked for one either. My $0.02 Peter BlackBerry service provided by Nextel -----Original Message----- From: sammie smith Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:41:02 To:tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tcb] Re: fuel capacity There is a miscommunique in there some where. All 67 year model manuals i could find indicate 40 liters. Manual for 68 model year indicates 60 liters. Remember that model year begins Sept 1 of prior year. My opinion, if you see a 60 liter tank in a split it has been changed to that by someone other than the factory. Eric Woodall wrote: Looks like Brian Denning is correct. Very short time at the end of the Split Window bus, where they had the larger tank. Interesting.. So from August to December sometime they changed... I <3 Buses! sammie smith wrote: > Here's the facts: Bentley manual for 63 67 transporter shows fuel > capacity of 40 liters with no differentiation for the 67. 67 owner's > manual dated August 66 shows fuel capacity of 40 liters. 67 owner's > manual dated December 66 show's fuel capacity of 10.6 gallons US which > is essentially 40 liters, Though 40 liters rounds off closer to 10.5 > gallons US. > > 68 owner's manual dated December 67 shows fuel capacity of 60 liters > or 16 gallons US, a 50% increase over the split tank. > > Sammie