I dont really know if i should call you brave or stupid for putting a tank IN the cabin really. I understand you want more capacity and places to put it is sparse in a lj70 which is quite small..
BUT! What if you are in a crash and the tank starts to leak over you? I would certainly not want to become coated in diesel..
As Beau rightly said diesel isnt explosive or any where near as flammable as petrol.
In the showroom of the 4x4 place who sold me the steel and let me use there machines they have one of their tanks that was dropped from something silly like 10 meters!
Its obviously very bent and distorted but its still water/fuel tight! So built correctly it shouldn't rupture easily in a crash.
The other thing worth remembering is that I'm hoping within the next few years to be running on filtered waste veg oil, so the tank behind me will be full of WVO which is even less flammable than diesel!
I wouldn't worry about it bikers are virtually sat on the petrol tank . I do wonder though Ben if with your skills you could have equaled the volume of fuel you will carry in both tanks using less space by cutting some deck out and replacing the existing tank with a much bigger custom made one .
I did consider it but the only way to make the main tank bigger would have been to have it hang down lower which I didn't really want as I dont want to loose ground clearance.
Cutting some of the deck out would have been an option, but I want this tank to drop straight into the new body when I fit it in a few years time and with the new body I certainly dont want to cut it up or mess with it too much.
Because LJ has been such a big part of my life for so many years now and due to the fact I've invested so much time and money and shipped it to the other side of the world, my plan would be to keep it forever.
Now the chassis is solid and mechanically its really good, but the body has obviously been knocked around over the years and wont last forever. So my plan is to buy a rust free swb 70 that I can remove the body from to fit to my chassis.
Lately I've found myself not wanting to drive the hardest tracks I can find in LJ and risk doing too much damage. LJ will always be a toy but I've changed direction slightly now and I want it to be more of a touring vehicle which I can go off to places like the High Country in for a few days or a week.
I want to build an all out rock crawler/comp truck for the hard tracks and treat LJ with a bit more respect. I want a Jimny chassis and body and then I will fit a bigger engine, 60 series axles, hydro steering, possibly 4 wheel steer, insane amounts of wheel travel, Gigglepin winch, 37"/40" tyres.
