I would make good use of brass and stainless. There's anti-corrosive spray-on coatings (i.e fluid film) and waxed gauze wraps. We use both at work. Trace leakage also helps keep the rust away
Waxed gauze wraps... there's an idea I hadn't thought of! Brass and stainless are great, until you mix a couple metals that weren't supposed to be mixed and make things worse with galvanic corrosion! Lost the rear plate bracket off the work truck. Made a new one out of brass because it won't rot as quick as steel, turns out it reacts with the cheap aluminum in the license plates even WORSE. Lasted almost a year.... New one is made from Stainless, holds all FOUR bolts instead of just the top two, and I PAINTED the back of the license plate. If that thing falls off again... I'll be mad
The new FSVs are lifetime warranty so in theory the store you buy from would have to replace annually, but it wouldn't be any fun to repeatedly replace, I admit. Unless they only honor it once.
Meh, Mine was only 3 year warranty. It's an aftermarket, hence the $60 price versus $200ish. If it fails again and they won't warranty it I'll be going the same route as IDIBronco.
And that is actually a really good idea.
Wish I had thought of it or heard it a few weeks ago.
I'm planning on doing a lot of things when I do my 4wd swap. Some of them won't get done, but they're "planned" anyway
I'm VERY strongly considering a 38gal rear tank. If my FSV fails again, I'll keep my front tank and use it just exactly like this. Always nice to have the extra reserve on long trips. I've thought about hooking up the 100gal in bed transfer tank in a similar fashion. It would be REALLY nice to fill up going down the road by flipping a switch!
... I need to replace all the rubber hose from the tanks to the FSV and ahead of it too. Its probably 30+ feet of hose, both 3/8" feed and 5/16" return.
Personally I'd run either steel or that new nickel-copper line for the majority of it and just rubber at the ends. Doesn't rub through as easily or degrade as quickly. For those long lengths, the steel would probably be cheaper than the rubber too.
