...is it to install a gas gauge sending unit into a tank still on the truck? My '48 GMC has a between-the-frame-rails tank. I have easy access to the top of the tank by removing a few boards from the flatbed. The truck is outside under a canopy tent with no side or end panels. Because there is some gas in the tank there will be fumes when I remove the old sending unit.
The only anticipated trouble spot is getting the old gasket off, it's stuck pretty tight. I have a battery disconnect switch, I won't have a cell phone with me and I can run an external ground from the tank to the metal stakes that hold the tent to the ground. I think I can scrape off the old gasket with a thin plastic tool. No power tools will be used.
What I don't want to do is be tomorrow's headline: "Old Fool Kills Self & Nice Old Truck"
Suggestions? Thanks, Jim
