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You can see I made it full width and becasue Scotty is a bit of a pro on water and fuel tanks for cars, he made the sides and top a very tight fit against the canopy but left a bit of room down the bottom to make sure we could get pipework out of the tub.
Here is the filler and breather:
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Scotty used a poly pipe end cap for the filler cap and fitted a breather hose that can hang out over the tub. He said he does this so that when filling, you often get a glug that can spill up to a litre out of the breather and doing it this wayit does not end up in the tray and wet all your gear. He said if I wanted to I could coil the pipe up and it would act as an air lock so it would not leak if I forgot to keep the shiny side up
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The tank is 280mm wide and I bought 1.2 m of 300mm wide x 4.5mm thick rubber sheet from Clark Rubber and we contact cemented that to the base of the tank so it does not rub on the tray. Scotty initially drilled holes and screwed the tank into place so everything fitted. The tank was a little bit warped because he said he welded it hotter than he normally would so there was no chance a weld would split out in the desert, but it screwed down fine. we then removed the tank again and he drilled them out with a bigger drill and fitted nutsert threads wth a tool a bit like a pop riveter. He driled a 25mm hole in the corner of the tub floor for the outlet. After vacuuming all the swarf up and wiping the tub down with thinners, we bolted it in with 8 x 5mm bolts. 4 along the bottom:
![Image](http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb270/rodweb/Hilux/Water%20tank/DSC_3669.jpg)
and 4 along the top:
![Image](http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb270/rodweb/Hilux/Water%20tank/DSC_3668.jpg)
Sorry, I did not take a pic of the outlet, but it comes straight out like the breather and we used a short piece of drinking waterhose and a couple of hose clamps. This then feeds into a stainless elbow which goes straight down throught the tub underneath:
![Image](http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb270/rodweb/Hilux/Water%20tank/DSC_3667.jpg)
So basically, to remove the tank, all I will have to do is to undo one hose clamp and 8 bolts. So apparently I have to clean it off with thinners and polish it with Mr Sheen to stop fingerprints from showing.