Sliding taillight for fuel filler

kstones63 · Post by **kstones63** » January 7, 2010, 10:13 pm

Here are some pics of the sliding taillight that I built. It's finished except for mounting in the bed which should be in a couple of weeks. I need to find a fuel filler neck to put in but that should be easy. If the taillight housing gets in the way of the fuel nozzle, I will change the light from swinging sideways to folding down.
I put a spring in this to push the light out when the catch is released. I am going to put a cable on the catch and let it hang down under the fender to release it.

Kevin

randyr · Post by **randyr** » January 8, 2010, 12:06 am

Great idea, Kevin!! I think you could probably sell a few of those when you get it perfected.......I could be a likely candidate!

Randy

Brian Taylor · Post by **Brian Taylor** » January 8, 2010, 11:11 am

Have you thought of putting a electric release on it. Like the same used on electric door locks? Still keep the cable on for power loss.
I would like to have one of those for my truck if you decide to go into production of a few.

loosrp · Post by **loosrp** » January 8, 2010, 11:24 am

Nice work!!

Roger Carter · Post by **Roger Carter** » January 8, 2010, 11:51 am

Nice work, looks great. Question. How far does the taillight assembly "slide out"?

Roger Carter

64Ranger · Post by **64Ranger** » January 8, 2010, 12:22 pm

All I can say is there are some pretty smart guys on this site. You guys come up with some of the neatest ways of doing things.

Great work Kevin...can't wait to see it in action.

Gritsngumbo · Post by **Gritsngumbo** » January 8, 2010, 12:48 pm

Pretty cool. I'd take one also. You going to do an operational video for us to see?

65ford1 · Post by **65ford1** » January 8, 2010, 5:06 pm

Great idea,if you make some to sell add me to the list. Gene

Reds Rod Shop · Post by **Reds Rod Shop** » January 8, 2010, 6:30 pm

Sweet, I'd be interested in one too. Looks like you might could go into business with these...

kstones63 · Post by **kstones63** » January 8, 2010, 10:37 pm

Roger Carter wrote:Nice work, looks great. Question. How far does the taillight assembly "slide out"?

Roger Carter

The taillight slides out 3".
I will try and remember to do a video when I get it mounted in the the bed.
I don't know if it could ever be possible to produce these, at a reasonable cost,with the equipment that I have. If a person had access to a CNC mill, it might be feasible to do. My mill is hand crank and takes forever to do anything. If I new more about the mill and how to operate it, things might be easier. I make do with what tooling that I got when I purchased the mill and not knowing its proper use.
If anybody wants to try this I would be glad to give them any measurements that I have to help them out. I just built this one as I thought about without any special plans.

Kevin

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » January 9, 2010, 2:18 am

there is a guy named jamie over on fordification that has a cnc machine and he has produced some parts for the 67-72 trucks. i may link this thread to him and see what he thinks.
good work by the way.

macgiobuin · Post by **macgiobuin** » January 9, 2010, 2:28 am

Pretty cool!

Gary Seymour · Post by **Gary Seymour** » January 9, 2010, 8:05 am

Very trick!! What tank are you using?

My1stSlick · Post by **My1stSlick** » January 9, 2010, 12:51 pm

I have access to several CNC's. My neighbor has a CNCMasters Baron in his garage, and I have another buddy with a machine shop in Dallas. If you already have this designed in software.... let me know and we can figure something out.
Mark

PFM-64f100 · Post by **PFM-64f100** » February 22, 2010, 5:33 pm

Anything new updates on this? I am really thinink about doing this for the crewcab.

kstones63 · Post by **kstones63** » February 22, 2010, 11:45 pm

I have the gas cap and neck ready to go in. I bought a gas cap from Hagan's Street Rod Neccessities that you don't have to take off to fill the tank. It has a spring loaded center in it that the nozzle pushes into. I will take some pics and post them soon.
I don't have any exact drawings of how this is made. I woke up at 2 o'clock in the morning and thought about how to build this, then sketched it out so I wouldn't forget when I finally got up for the day. I went and bought a piece of aluminum and everything else was made out of leftover suff in the garage. It really isn't very complicated to build. Mounting it was the hard part. I will post mounting pics soon.
I am about 1 day away from having the bed ready for paint unless I find anything else that I don't like and have to fix it. Then I am waiting on the painter.

Kevin

kstones63 · Post by **kstones63** » March 28, 2010, 10:16 pm

Here is the finished product other than a little bit of touch up paint on the mounts.

Now if the gas nozzle doesn't hit anything during fueling, everything will be great.

Kevin

ezernut9mm · Post by **ezernut9mm** » March 28, 2010, 10:37 pm

that is killer. nice work.

Michelle · Post by **Michelle** » March 28, 2010, 10:38 pm

I like.

Alan Mclennan · Post by **Alan Mclennan** » March 29, 2010, 1:28 am

That worked out fantastic Kevin!

Sliding taillight for fuel filler

Sliding taillight for fuel filler

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