RDS Below Deck Aluminum Fuel Tanks

I replaced my 34 year old leaking steel tank with this one. It's built very solid, and was an almost perfect replacement in size with very minor modification required. Hard to beat it for the price, which iBoats had for much less than competitors.

Pay special attention that the black wire coming out of the fuel gauge sending unit needs to be grounded! Small flange provided on the tank that gets grounded with a separate wire isn't connected at all to the installed sending unit as you'd expect. Can't just connect the 2 wires from the sending unit to the gauge. Took me a long time and a lot of frustration to get my fuel gauge to work. I had to figure out that this tank (which was replacing an exact older model) is wired differently because of the new style sending unit. Also, they changed the size of the fittings from NPT 3/8 to NPT 1/4. Causing last minute scrambling to get new hoses installed. Absolutely no directions or instructions shipped with the tank! I hope their ears burned off!

Tank is bowed on all sides Tank will not sit flat. Looks like a thin gauge of aluminum that warped during welding. Welds seem OK...but I assumed they would have been machine welded. Not the case. Item was shipped directly from RDS and the packaging was . Sending it back and having a custom tank welded locally

The tank was discribed properly and pictured correctly. It was a little small but still worked for what I needed. I am now waiting to get my boat in the water to see if it actually fixed the problem with my boat. I do expect it has.

good tank and nice construction good size for little space below deck

Fuel tank was as expected,shipping was fast, and iboats had great customer service... was a good experience all around.