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| | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 14 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 14 | Hi All,
I have the tank out of my '53 Suburban to be blasted and sealed. I'm trying to find my truck in the 1947-1954 truck factory assembly manual. (Golden State reprint with the green covers) There's no index to truck types but I found a page with Model 3105-3106 showing rear doors. (panel or suburban)
Anyway, I can't find a gas tank diagram that matches mine. There's one that looks just right on sheet 8/1.00, but the fuel outlet is shown coming through the sending unit, my truck has fuel out through the wall of the tank.
I have a brand new sending unit (mine lost its float) which appears to be an exact replacement, from Chevy Duty, so I know my truck isn't too oddball.
1) Do your fuel pickup lines come through the sending unit or the tank wall?
There doesn't seem to be anything between the straps and tank. (I was expecting rubber or felt strips.) Book calls for cementing of "anti-squeak" between straps and tank. When I took the tank out there seemed to be the remains of something, but it crumbled and could have been packed road grease...
2) Anybody know what "anti-squeak" is and where I can get it? Its probably strips of something like rubber or felt. None of the usual mail order guys seem to list it.
Thanks for any help you can lend,
-John
original '53 Suburban
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,270 | John,
On the 1954 Suburban, the fuel line is part of the sending unit. I think that the Chevy Duty sending unit to which you refer is for a pickup gas tank (which is in the cab, behind the seat). I am almost certain that the 1953 Suburban sending unit is the same (just like the diagram in Sect. 8, Sheet 1).
Your tank might have been "adapted" at some time - most likely because the sending unit had to be replaced and no one sells a new replacement.
The anti-squeak between the tank and the support bars above the tank (not between the strap and the tank) looks like a thick roofing "tar-paper". I used strips of black vinyl but 3-4 layers of 30# roofing felt would do fine.
Tim | | | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 14 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 14 | Thanks for the quick answers. Roofing paper for anti-squeak sounds just right.
My truck has only 28,000 mi on it, (23,000 when I got it) and its very original. Even the light bulbs are still the ones the factory installed. The old sending unit without fuel line looks awfully original, still held in with little clutch head screws. I'll try and post a photo.
-John
original '53 Suburban
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 14 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 14 | New Chevy Duty sender on left, unit that came out of the Suburban on right. (looks like it would work fine if the float hadn't diasappeared!) [img] http://www.erha.org/gasend.jpg[/img] Neither has fuel feed. -John
original '53 Suburban
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