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Fuel Tank Replacement 28te

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Fuel Tank Replacement 28te

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Does anyone have the original drawings or the measurements for the tank on a 1996 28te? I can probably get pretty close on measuring with the original in the boat but would be helpful if someone had it. Thanks.
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Re: Fuel Tank Replacement 28te

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boatruptcy wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:20 pm Does anyone have the original drawings or the measurements for the tank on a 1996 28te? I can probably get pretty close on measuring with the original in the boat but would be helpful if someone had it. Thanks.
Curios to what went wrong?
Installing a bigger tank, or a direct replacement?
Corrosion, crud or both?

I am always thinking of adding more tankage.
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Slow leak right on the port stringer, a couple drops an hour maybe.
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Probably pretty easy to add capacity now that I think about it, just extend the width further aft, probably have another six to twelve inches at least.
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Here's a cross section diagram I made but does not have fore/aft dimension. Ignore the dotted line and the heights in left hand margin - that was the height of the fuel in the tank at the time as I was calibrating a sending unit.
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Re: Fuel Tank Replacement 28te

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Dads thing 001~2.jpg
Thanks, mine is different, went and measured tonight and my stringers aren't cut down.
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Does the original tanks have inspection ports for cleaning?
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Norseman wrote: Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:47 pm Does the original tanks have inspection ports for cleaning?
I don't have my deck off yet but I doubt they do.
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Here's the tank that was in my 2000 28TE. Not much as to inspection access but atleast there was a removable plate. No better way to keep the tanks clean than to run the boat, slosh the fuel around in the tank to keep everything stirred up, a no-screen pickup tube very close to the tank bottom, a quality filtration setup and send all that clean filtered return fuel back to the tank. Probably somewhere around 35GPH with the 6LP.
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There is a factory drawing of the 28TE fuel tank in the Document Library.
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You can try contacting Luther’s Welding in Bristol Rhode Island. They are almost certainly the maker of your tank and probably can assist if you are replacing.

http://www.lutherswelding.com/index.html
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I ended up ordering from speedy tanks (Atlantic Coastal Welding), be done in a week, I was going to go with plastic but it was $500 more and the wait was too long. I am not sure why my original failed, I don't have it out yet but I can't imagine it's crevice corrosion but possible. It's leaking on top of the port stringer so maybe.
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Is it generally cheaper to replace the whole tank than to repair it locally? My take is a 1994 and much more like Boatruptcy's drawing. No access port other than where the sender / vent / pickup / return lines go in.

Has anyone done a sight tube with this tank?
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Sisu22 wrote: Sat Mar 24, 2018 10:02 am Is it generally cheaper to replace the whole tank than to repair it locally? My take is a 1994 and much more like Boatruptcy's drawing. No access port other than where the sender / vent / pickup / return lines go in.

Has anyone done a sight tube with this tank?
I don't personally want to go through the effort of removing and repairing and reinstalling, I would never trust it again. It's $1500 including shipping for new one and the first one lasted twenty years so I think it's reasonable to replace. I thought about site tube but no real good place to put it on my set up.
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Re: Fuel Tank Replacement 28te

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Getting a new tank built, are you adding inspection plates or modifying in any way? (Bigger)
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