For Sale: Used Zodiac Flexible Fuel Bladders

[Spongie]

For sale: 4x Zodiac Inflatable Boat Flexible Fuel Bladders

2x with Cap/non return valve fitting. £150 each
2x without Cap/Fitting (available from zodiac) £125 each


Collection from Lowestoft Suffolk or Southampton Boat Show 20/09. Postage possible but at extra cost.

Type: Elongated Flexible Fuel Tank, Capacity: 6 US Gallons (22.7 liters)
Approved for Zodiac MilPro Underwater Cache, AirDrop and HeliDrop solutions
Specifications:

Capacity : 22.7 Liter / 6 US Gallons
Length : 1.03 meter / 3' 05"
Diameter : 0.31 meter / 12"
Attachment : Along the buoyancy tube

[Spongie]

Two with caps sold

[skip3662]

Hi mate do you still have the 2 left ?

[Spongie]

Hi.

I do still have the two without caps/fittings, though a member on here did the me they are still available as spares from zodiac

[skip3662]

Ok, let me see if I can find some caps, trying to find a part number. You ok to send to Australia (at my expense)?

[Spongie]

Yes no problems with that

[Pikey Dave]

I have one of the Milpro fuel bladders (great bit of kit btw) and looking at the cap, it wouldn’t be a big or complicated job to knock one up on a lathe.

[skip3662]

Interesting, I’ll buzz Zodiac here and see, I’ve found some images of the caps, not much to them. Finger crossed though I’d like to be able to secure them for my Fc470

[skip3662]

To the best on your knowledge, any holes/leaks. Understand if you don’t know.

[spartacus]

The zodiac bladders are part number Z66079. The fuel caps are aluminium I think and precision made. More pictures here: https://www.rib.net/forum/f36/zodiac...der-82644.html

I see skip you’re based in Australia. If anyone can turn it on a lathe, then Kurtis from CEE (YouTube) can.

[Spongie]

Originally Posted by skip3662

To the best on your knowledge, any holes/leaks. Understand if you don’t know.

I did reply to this via PM but doing so here too for public consumption (lol)

Yeah these are all good to the best of my knowledge, I never noticed any wear or damage to them, the only real downside is the lack of caps.

I've got a zodiac dealer looking into getting them for me too. Will advise on that ASAP.

[skip3662]

Sorry mate, I’m new lol, didn’t see the PM.

Ok I’ve also emailed a Milpro parts shop and await reply about the caps.

Cheers for your help as well

[Spongie]

No worries. Hopefully Zodiac Milpro will have the good answers

[skip3662]

Fingers / Toes Crossed ����

[Spongie]

Originally Posted by skip3662

Sorry mate, I’m new lol, didn’t see the PM.

Ok I’ve also emailed a Milpro parts shop and await reply about the caps.

Cheers for your help as well

Originally Posted by skip3662

Fingers / Toes Crossed ����

If you don't have any joy, I still have the two with the fittings here as the person who bought them is local to me but working away.

What I could do is take the caps out and take one of them to my local friendly machine shop and see if they could reverse engineer a pair for me, but I don't imagine that would be cheap.

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by Spongie

If you don't have any joy, I still have the two with the fittings here as the person who bought them is local to me but working away.



What I could do is take the caps out and take one of them to my local friendly machine shop and see if they could reverse engineer a pair for me, but I don't imagine that would be cheap.

As an aside. When I got mine a couple of years back, I hooked up the boat pump to the fuel bladder via the fuel nipple & inflated the bladder to tube pressure 2.5psi. And gave the bladder a spray with soapy water to check for leaks. Non found. I then steam cleaned the bladder inside & out, I was surprised by the amount of crap that was inside, including sand & bits of gravel. I made up a short rigid hose to go on the compressor & blew out the bladder to dry it & then rinsed it with some clean diesel. I have a Racor disposable fuel filter between the bladder & engine. All runs perfectly.
The fuel bladders are a great bit of kit & I was very tempted to get another when these came up for sale.

[skip3662]

Hey mate, I’ll reach out again tomorrow, our Milpro team here won’t return calls, I suppose I am a small fry lol. I’d rather find some oem ones if I could. Appreciate your extra effort though !

[Spongie]

Any joy?

[skip3662]

Hi mate sorry was away for work, I’ll call my contact again tomorrow.

Stupid question, there’s no pick up hose needed ? ie there’s no hose from the inside of that cap needed to pick up fuel is there.

It’s just the cap and it’s fitting that’s needed (sorry I don’t have a schematic of the tank thus unsure how it functions)

[Spongie]

The Cap has a non return valve and a quick release connection for the fuel line.