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| | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 33 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 33 | Here's a dumb question (Igot a million of 'em).... How do you get the gas tank out of a 1946 1/2 ton? The straps look like they are mounted from the bottom somehow..
Experience is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again....
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 784 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 784 | Yep, you are right. You need to get under the truck and unbolt one side of each strap. then your tank should lift out. Mine didn't come with the orig straps. It was just sitting there. I used some of that metal plumbers tape. It looks like a roll of metal with holes punched in it. I bolted one end down, installed the tank then fished the other end with a bolt attached down between the seat riser and the tank, through the floor and tightened it up. It worked out well.
George | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 Extreme Gabster | | Extreme Gabster Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,682 | Those two straps can be a PITA to remove. I usually just unbolt the dashboard side and then bend them up against the back of the cab.
Make sure you disconnect the sending wire, close the petcock valve, disconnect the fuel line, as well as remove the leather/rubber grommet around the fill tube before trying to lift the tank out.
From the drivers side, just lift the tank and twist the tank to your left as you pull the tank twards you and she'll slide right out.
an idea is only stupid if you think about it rationally.
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 33 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 33 | Thanks! There is so much crud under my seat I didn't know where to start "digging"..
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