47-55.1 Confirm tank mockup

[51 3600]

Finally got Tanks Inc. tank delivered and am working on mocking up it's position in my '51 3600. I don't have the bed close by nor do I have any of the wood blocks so I'm going by some measurements I've taken, info from vendors and what I can find on here and the web. Would like some feedback from you folks to see if my thinking and assumptions are correct.

Pic below is drivers side view of frame with blocks representing bed parts. Yellow is cross sill/slat/support(?) at rear where bolt attaches bed to frame. Using 2.25" for height. Red is wood block between frame and cross sill, also 2.25' high. Green is bed bottom. So I figure I have about 4.5" of space to bring the filler tube from the tank, under the bed, out through the bed side and up into the fender for a fender mounted filler neck.



I'd like the tank as far forward as possible. In this configuration there are about 7" horizontally between the axle and the tank (looking straight down from above). Hoping that is enough for the exhaust pipe to go up, over and down behind the axle then out the back.



Top of tank to be 1" above frame rails.



That leaves about 2.25" of the tank hanging below the frame and about 11" from the back of the tank to the end of the frame rails. Hope that is enough room for repositioning rear crossmember and bumper brackets.

Comments, suggestions, corrections, ruler hand-slap appreciated. Thanks all.