'70 Duster Revival: Drag Racing Heart | Pro Touring Soul

Everything was going great with the new rearend and the wheels installed... until it was time to mount the stock fuel tank. A new stock replacement tank mounting in the stock location underneath the spare tire bulge interfered with the Dana 60's rearend cover.

I was a little irritated after making this discovery but Chuck let me know "Hey... this is hot rodding." He was right. After a couple calming beers we put together a new game plan. I could have probably replaced the Moser Dana 60 cover with a stock one and been fine but we had a line a brand new stainless steel fuel cell at Chuck's shop and they were willing to part with reasonably.

So, after a long weekend of cutting out the old patched together trunk pan and carefully aligning and installing a new AMD pan... it was time to cut it out again. We welded in a new piece of flat sheet metal, installed the fuel cell mounting rails and then painted the inside and undercoated the bottom. I then rolled some new FatMat in the trunk. The new fuel cell went in pretty easily and gave us good clearance as well as good mounting points for the electronic fuel pump and the filters. Problem solved!