1972 Blazer fuel tank filler problem

[mar-tay1]

I have a new fuel tank to start off my 72 K5 project and the filler neck on the new tank is short and straight and fires into the body mount. The original tank has a longer bent swan neck filler neck to it that bends around the body mount. Now looking on line almost all replacement tanks are like this, some now are even plastic. Who has the best way of fixing this issue? Looking at welding the thing on today, nice rainy day project

 

[ekajkrats]

Had a shop braze my old filler neck to the new tank since I dont have the tools or the skills. That was the only solution I found online.
-Jacob

 

[diesel4me]

I never replaced the tank in my '72 K5 with an aftermarket one,I did find a nice used one that was a GM replacement that was only a year old when the truck it was in got wrecked...
I do recall the filler neck being as you said,swan like ,and I had a hard time sourcing some genuine filler neck hose,which cost 15 bucks a foot to install it..

I had an 82 GMC Cabbalaro and when I bought a Spectra gas tank for it,the place I got it from said they would have to remove the filler neck off the new tank and my old one,and solder my original one off the El-Camino tank in order for it to work (which they did for no extra charge),so I could put it in myself...they evidently made one aftermarket tank that was also used on Malibu station wagons fit the El-Camino by swapping fuel filler necks instead of making another part,or perhaps they just had no source for the OEM filler necks on the El-Caminos..

Perhaps this is the same issue on your tank..maybe it also fits some other application if you swap the filler neck..but I would think they would specify that in the listings or on an instruction sheet that came with it ?..