It will certainly be secured and protected. I'm all about risk mitigation. I think the ideal storage space is on the roof in this built in ventilated storage compartment:
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It will certainly be secured and protected. I'm all about risk mitigation. I think the ideal storage space is on the roof in this built in ventilated storage compartment:
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And it contains ingredients known to the State of California to cause Cancer.
You will definitely have to get something that is strong to internal pressures. Gasoline has a large swing as far as expansion/contraction in heat/cold environments.
Fill up on cold days! You get more!
Okay I'm going to geek out here. From Wikipedia:
EDIT: Okay well pasting the table did not work... But an example is that gasoline has a Volumetric Thermal Expansion Coeficient of 950 in the same conditions that water does at 207 and ethanol has 750. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal...ious_materials
Just leave a gas bottle out in the sun for a few hours next to a water jug and see how it reacts.
Not a bad idea. I have several gallons of water under the back seat currently in 24oz bottles, and there is definitely space that could be used more efficiently. Downside is that, unlike a sport bike, a couple of 32oz bottles wouldn't get me very far... That's only about 18 miles in my Xterra and I would really like to extend the range by about 100 miles. I don't think it would be worth the hassle to have 10 32oz bottles stashed around the truck that I have to rotate every 6 months.
Thanks for the suggestions so far, you guys have presented some really neat ideas that I might end up pursuing.
I like the roof rack idea. In that thread Wulf posted, one guy was just using a gas tank off of a lawn mower. See if there is a riding mower or some vehicle that might have a purpose built fuel tank that will fit into that roof rack.
ETA: Of course you could avoid reinventing the wheel altogether by buying a jerrycan.
Of course, but a good Jerry can is pricey and then the only place I could put it is in between the roof rack crossbars, which I think is less than ideal.
i did not consider salvaging a tank from something else... I wonder what sort of tank would fit in that storage space? It's 14"x28" but only 3-4" deep because of the contour. [Dunno]
http://www.4by4connection.com/nissanxterra.html
Or
http://www.lowes.com/pd_90258-1362-85033_0__
Or
http://www.thenewx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65285
That's all I got for ya lol, sorry I couldn't help more. There are 5gal Jerry Can (the metal ones) holders that you can bolt anywhere, I've seen peple mount them on their roof in a yakima loadwarrior. I just got a 5gal plastic gas can and bungied it to my giant tupperware box in my cargo area that held a lot of tools/misc stuff.
I have seen the cardboard foldable gas cans but don't think they're a permanent solution, just a "crap i ran out of gas but oh look i have this cardboard gas can that the gas stations sell".
eta: And yes, that first link wont fit your X because its meant for the 1st gens. But its an idea if you end up getting a rear tire carrier, you could have someone fab it up for you to hide the cans there.
eta: That last one looks pretty good, don't know much about it though.
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Hey, I was trying to stay out of it [LOL]. When I was big into the xterras, I was buying everything for them. I have the roof net, the interior bike rack and tons of other stuff I haven't used in years. Seat covers were well worth it because many times I had stuff spilled that would stain the seat cover and i could throw it in the wash, unlike the actual seat.
When I got too broke to buy all the fun toys, I ended up just using bungie cords for everything, because they work.