We'll be embarking on a long trip soon and I think it's finally time to bite the bullet and add a second fuel tank. We usually travel solo, but our travel buddy for this upcoming trip has 60 gal capacity for his truck. I don't want to slow him down with twice as many fuel stops as he needs, but he's also got a bum prostate and needs to stop often for biological reasons. These two "needs" might balance out, but I don't want to be the limiting factor for this lengthy trip.
Anyway...
I'm looking for suggestions for a second fuel tank for my pickup. I assume the best option is a thin vertical tank in the bed of the truck, but I don't know much about this yet.
When I was a kid we used to take a lot of trips down to Mulege (Baja California) and the Mexican gas was so horrible that my dad added two aux tanks to our truck. The problem was that we had tanks 1-2-3 and a gauge switch that showed A-B-C. Dad knew how the tanks worked, but I wish I had a dollar for every time my mom "ran out of gas" on the boulevard because she saw an F on the gauge but she accidentally had the wrong tank on the switch and ran us out in front of McDonalds (again). (It was even MORE embarrassing because the McDonalds was about 30 yards kitty-corner to dad's fire station and one of his crew would eventually drive out on a run and see us stalled in lanes.)
Again, anyway...
I'm looking for a cheap and easy fuel solution so we can make it further than the 200 or so miles that our current tank affords us.
