[Shotimes] Surgical Instructions

[Tom Teixeira]

At 8:20 PM -0500 8/21/04, bjshov8 wrote:
>If the tank is about 1/3 full or less it isn't that hard to just drop the
>tank.  I've heard lots of people on the list complain about this and I never
>understood it.  Working in my dad's shop long ago I had to remove lots of
>tanks and it never was that hard.  I pulled the tank on my 90 and installed
>a new fuel pump and it wasn't hard at all.  The hard part is actually
>disconnecting the rubber connector for the fuel inlet tube.

Are you in the rust belt? I haven't removed the tank in my SHO, but 
most everything I have had to unbolt on that car has been rusted 
badly up here in Massachusetts, and I consider it a *major* 
accomplishment to not break any bolts. Just getting the fuel filter 
out of the bracket gave me a faceful of rust flakes.

But otherwise, having dropped the tank on an '35 pickup truck (mostly 
restored by someone else so those bolts *weren't* rusted), I agree it 
was no big deal.
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