Long Range Fuel Tanks

Submitted: Friday, May 25, 2007 at 20:17
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Here is one for the books!!

Recently we eliminated the auxiliary fuel tank in the canopy and used the space for a freezer.

Added the Long Range 295l fuel tank.

So far so good.

About two weeks after the work was done by we were driving up a very steep hill and did not have the power to make it to the top. Uh oh!!

Took the vehicle to Range Ford and they spent a month tearing it apart: new injectors and rings, new fuel pump, did just about everything they could think of except return Big Red to ARB.

Finally, Ford threw up their hands and delivered the truck to ARB.

In the meantime, we are overseas and communicating first with Ford and then with ARB by Skype.

Two days after ARB has the truck they tell me that the installer reached up and ran his hand along the fuel line from the pickup to the pump and - gues what - found a kink in the fuel line.

Big surprise!!

Ford literally spent thousands and never checked the actually line from the tank to the pump.

ARB allowed the truck to leave the facility without making sure that the line was straight and there were no kinks.

Now all is well and Big Red is eating up the hills - so they tell me.

Boy are we at the mercy of the tradies.

Cheers, Jay

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Reply By: Noosa Fox - Friday, May 25, 2007 at 21:29

Friday, May 25, 2007 at 21:29
Seeing as how the fault was caused by ARB fitting a non standard fuel tank, who is paying the labour charges of Range Ford looking for a fault in the Ford section of vehicle?

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Follow Up By: Luvntravln - Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 08:26

Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 08:26
I have no idea at this time. I do know one thing: I am not!!

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Follow Up By: Black Cobra - Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 13:47

Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 13:47
Jay, don't start me on how work has been done on my F250 and having to go back to the so called proffesional tradies to recommend, no tell them how it should have been done, to have it done correctly and rectified at their cost.

Maybe its my fault I should have stipulated exactly how I wanted it done but you give them the vehicle thinking that they are the proffessionals when in most cases a bit of common sense used is enough.

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Reply By: Bato - Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 18:47

Saturday, May 26, 2007 at 18:47
Jay, you should have given the Batson brothers a call we may have been able to help.

C'ya Keith.
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