Bet some of Wish We Had A Larger/Extended Fuel Tank Now...

sjwhiteley · Aug 27, 2023

The old 97 suburban had a 42 gallon tank… (an ‘up hill both ways’ moment).

Maybe they - whoever ‘they’ are - are trying to get us used to the smaller range of electric vehicles? The same ‘them’ might start slowing down the rate that gas can be pumped, too.

GlennSullivan · Aug 27, 2023

sjwhiteley said:
The old 97 suburban had a 42 gallon tank… (an ‘up hill both ways’ moment).

Maybe they - whoever ‘they’ are - are trying to get us used to the smaller range of electric vehicles? The same ‘them’ might start slowing down the rate that gas can be pumped, too.

You know, you might have something there. My 2002 Diesel Excursion had a 44 Gallon tank. I could run over 725 miles without refueling. Even towing, I could get over 500.

Currently with my 2017 / 28 Gallon setup, I am getting close to 500 miles between fills on a road trip, which is fine (I'm refueling with about 3 gallons remaining). Unfortunately, when towing my car trailer the MPG drops from 20 to 12.5 and I'm refueling about every 300 miles.

mr_dave · Aug 27, 2023

I had a 1988 Ford Bronco that had a 32 gallon tank and that thing was at least 2 feet shorter than the Expedition.

gtr09 · Aug 27, 2023

I've been off and on researching how to get a bigger tank in an Expy, there are no plug and play options at the moment. Other threads where people have asked aftermarket manufacturers about a tank it has come down to EPA. It's an emissions controlled part and getting a new tank certified is very expensive and not worth it for the Expedition market. Someone is going to have to roll their own. Hopefully you can adjust your tank size in Forscan if we figure out a bigger tank.

Defyant · Feb 13, 2024

gtr09 said:
I've been off and on researching how to get a bigger tank in an Expy, there are no plug and play options at the moment. Other threads where people have asked aftermarket manufacturers about a tank it has come down to EPA. It's an emissions controlled part and getting a new tank certified is very expensive and not worth it for the Expedition market. Someone is going to have to roll their own. Hopefully you can adjust your tank size in Forscan if we figure out a bigger tank.

Then best option is, second tank in place of spare tire. When main tank is low, flip switch and refill main tank from the second.

GlennSullivan · Feb 14, 2024

Defyant said:
Then best option is, second tank in place of spare tire. When main tank is low, flip switch and refill main tank from the second.

Getting off the subject for a second, I see you are from Rising Sun MD. We raced our Mustangs at Cecil County Dragway for about 15 years. That track has some amazing hook, broke a lot of parts there.

LegalBrief · Feb 15, 2024

I really would like a bigger fuel tank…

jjscsix · Feb 16, 2024

I admit I’d like a bigger tank because we tow a travel trailer. I have the short version with 23 gallons. The Max would get me to 28 gallons. I can get 36 gallons in an F150, but neither my wife nor I wants a pickup truck as our daily driver.

We love the Expedition. If I need a new vehicle before my wife retires (I am retired) I would go with the expedition Max because we just don’t have the time now to do very long or very often trips. When she retires I'm guessing a F150 will be in our garage.

Defyant · Feb 19, 2024

GlennSullivan said:
Getting off the subject for a second, I see you are from Rising Sun MD. We raced our Mustangs at Cecil County Dragway for about 15 years. That track has some amazing hook, broke a lot of parts there.

Yep, I used to race my Mercury Marauder there. Ran 11.98 in 1/4 mile in cold air, low 12's all day. Look up "Defyant Maruader". There are posts and videos out there if your interested. Sadly I mainly posted on Streetfire.net when that was a thing. Its gone and my content with it. Fun car with room for carseats and full trunk for family stuff. I refused to have a minivan lol! Regrettably, sold it. These days I mess with the 2019 Bullitt and an old '55 Ford.

GlennSullivan · Feb 20, 2024

Defyant said:
Yep, I used to race my Mercury Marauder there. Ran 11.98 in 1/4 mile in cold air, low 12's all day. Look up "Defyant Maruader". There are posts and videos out there if your interested. Sadly I mainly posted on Streetfire.net when that was a thing. Its gone and my content with it. Fun car with room for carseats and full trunk for family stuff. I refused to have a minivan lol! Regrettably, sold it. These days I mess with the 2019 Bullitt and an old '55 Ford.

I love those big Merc's, they are awesome cars, saw one for sale on Bring a Trailer last week.

We had 98 and 95 Cobra's when we raced at Cecil. The 98 was a low 12 car and the 95 a low 10 car. Our club, Superstallions, rented the track 2X a year, plus we went to some other clubs events there throughout the year as well as E-town and Atco (both gone now!). Cecil was my favorite, though, we all had a lot of fun there. We used to all stay at the Crystal Inn just down the street from the track and eat at Woody's Crab House down in Northeast.

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