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Old 01-14-2013, 07:11 PM   #1
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Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

Looking for anyone who has experience with one of these. I bought a gas tank from Brothers. It is supposed to be a tank that will fit an old-style Blazer and was also supposed to work as a replacement for a 60-66 Suburban.

Got the tank and started to install it and found out the filler neck sits lower on the tank and is at a much different angle than the original.

I figured some modification would be necessary but from the way I see it I'm going to have to modify the filler neck and possibly (probably) hack on the truck frame to make it work.

Just wanted to see if anyone has done one of these installs on a suburban - what you had to do to it - and if you had some pictures.

I have included some pics of the new tank.
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Old 01-14-2013, 07:21 PM   #2
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

I may be mistaken, but I think that may be a tank for a '67-72 blazer/suburban.
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Old 01-14-2013, 08:27 PM   #3
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

I have that tank in my 66 truck and I hate it. It was set up to fill from the stepside fender and the neck was almost level with the ground and would burp back and shut the pump off.

I wound up changing the bed and did this

40 ford filler neck.







May not be practical for your application but its what I did to get it to work for me...
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Old 01-14-2013, 08:30 PM   #4
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

Yes, it is a tank for a 67-72. brothers indicated it could be used as replacement on a 60-66.

I was hoping someone had used one of these and could post some pictures of the install before I started making some major modifications to make it work.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Old 01-14-2013, 08:33 PM   #5
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

Thanks TxRat. That gives me some ideas as to how to make it work. The Suburban fill neck on the original comes out of the top of the tank and straight across. This one is going to require some kind of "s" tube like you have used on yours.

Thanks again.
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Old 01-16-2013, 01:00 PM   #6
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

I used one from American Classic truck parts, it is listed as a relocation for a truck tank, was a perfect bolt-in fit but no spare tire cutout like the OE tank.
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Old 01-18-2013, 04:22 AM   #7
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

Aero Tanks in San Bernardino makes custom tanks-I had a 52 gallon tank made for my 1 ton panel(see my sig)
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Old 01-30-2013, 03:26 PM   #8
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

I used this tank but did some serious mods to make it work in my 66 pickup.

I would almost look to a later model suburban fuel tank, they hold a lot more fuel and you can find them all day long at the salvages....73 to 91

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last photo shows it under the floor of my pickup with a new fill door.
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Old 03-01-2013, 11:58 AM   #9
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Re: Brothers Gas Tank - Suburban

bought a 73-87 Blazer tank back in the '90s from JC Whitney, and used it until a sending unit for the 60-66 Suburbans was reproduced. It was a 31 gal, but I couldn't find a guage to work with it so I used an aftermarket guage from Autozone, which read wrong. I ended up using my originl tank with repro sender unit
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