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Originally Posted by purplem3pursuit
Interesting thread, and I can't agree more that this fuel tank is too small.. This is my first truck (and I am damn happy I bought it) but my mom's old Mercedes had a 26 gallon gas tank. You would think in a truck, they would step it up.
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I think Transfer Flow's email in a previous post may reveal something that we've missed- They said that Toyota's very small recovery canister (if I recall correctly) is making it difficult to engineer our systems. I think the small canister may reveal a cost-saving measure by Toyota. If larger tanks require larger and presumably more expensive evap recovery systems, competitors like Ford would have to incur the expense of using 2 different systems on trucks with different size tanks.... or just use one larger system for all models. If a larger system is more expensive, it doesn't make sense from a cost standpoint to use the larger system on all models when most of the models sold (5-6' bed) trucks use the smaller tank.
Just my $.02.