Long Ranger auxiliary fuel tank

[ChadH]

Has anyone here installed or seen installed one of these 17 gal aux tanks?
http://thelongranger.com.au/jeep/wrangler/tj/

I had a LRA tank on my Gladiator and it worked amazingly well. Although refitting the exhaust was a major pita. I live in an area where I'm always carrying jerry cans but lifting them is getting harder and harder. Pushing a button for an onboard aux tank would be nice. I DO NOT HARD CORE OFF ROAD - just to clarify, so hanging up on rocks is not a concern. Longer distance between filling up is definitely a concern though.

Genright does have a 24 gal tank for the TJ and a 31 gal tank for the LJ. My goal would be to have a 400 mile range, which with the GenRight 24 gal tank in the TJ and the 31 gal tank in the LJ, and this, should provide.

It seems to hook up just the same as the LRA tank on the Gladiator. And I did read some years ago that LRA was an offshoot of Long Ranger after some sort of argument. So I imagine this one from Long Ranger would be basically the same as the LRA tank.

 

[Chris]

Why not just get the GenRight tank. I ran the GenRight tank on one of my TJs and never had an issue with it.

I can't imagine shipping that from Australia will be cheap either!

 

[ChadH]

Why not just get the GenRight tank. I ran the GenRight tank on one of my TJs and never had an issue with it.

I can't imagine shipping that from Australia will be cheap either!

I was considering doing both. The aux tank is about 1300 shipped I believe, comes from a distributor in Canada

 

[OverLandingLJ]

Hey @ChadH,

I have actually been eyeing up this tank for a long time, this summer I called LRA and asked if I could order one. To my surprise they said no problem.

It is currently sitting in my shop still wrapped up on the shipping pallet. It took a few months to get here.

I have never seen one before but although pricey it seems like a great solution to keep things low on the Jeep. My plan is to use mine as a water tank in a Overlanding set up I am fabricating. Figured if I need more range it will be easy to switch it over to fuel with much work. I like options.

I am planning on posting a video of the install once I get to it.

Let me know what questions you have I will see if I can answer them

 

[ChadH]

Man I'm jealous. I definitely still want to go that route just have had too many other obligations this year. I would love to see a nice writeup with plenty of photos! I had a LRA tank, a different company than the one making aux tanks for the TJ, in the Gladiator and it was awesome!

 

[andyj]

I've got that long ranger tank. The tank itself is well made. The other parts not so much. I got it installed in a shop and they used a jerry can to fill it up the first time. When I went to the petrol station to fill up, it took me half an hour to get about 40l into a system that should take 117l. That's caused by the absolute piece of shit that they deliver for the filler neck:

Looks like the apprentice got his first opportunity to use a welder. The inside is rough as the Grand Canyon. If the fuel actually makes it through that bottleneck, it has to flow through a horizontal pipe that has a dip upward to get over the rear axle.
I re-designed the filler neck and got it welded. That set me back about 500 bucks for a new filler neck, the additional pipes and welding. I wrote a thread here somewhere.
I get my tanks filled up to the limit each time now, actually in reasonable time.
It would be better to have a second filler neck for it elswhere but there is not much room.

I'd love to have the genright as well but I can't tell if it fits. The hose to the aux tank is massive and goes over a dip on the original tank. If the genright uses that wasted space, you can't have both together.

Range wise - great! I get 850km out of them.

 

[andyj]

The hose squeezed between shock and tank and rear axle:

 

[ChadH]

Dang that is tight. I was planning on using a gen right tank along with the long ranger tank. I'm not surprised about the poor quality of the other parts. It was the same with the LRA tank for my Gladiator. The tank was awesome and well built, but all the other connecting parts, hoses, lines, pump, etc. were absolute garbage. That filler neck is laughable... I would definitely make another one as well if it is that bad.

Would you share some photos of the tank installed? I'm willing to bet that with some ingenuity for the filler neck it would still work with a gen right tank

 

[andyj]

I'll give it a try. It's difficult without a hoist.

Camera (phoooooneeee) orientation exclusively for @Zorba

 

[Obi-Wan]

Camera (phoooooneeee) orientation exclusively for @Zorba

ONLY FIVE "O's" ????!!!!

THIS IS NOT @Zorba APPROVED!!!!!

The wet noodle awaits you sir.

 

[Zorba]

ONLY FIVE "O's" ????!!!!

THIS IS NOT @Zorba APPROVED!!!!!

The wet noodle awaits you sir.

Only 1 "N", and too many "E"s, plus lack of capitalization.