sending unit or?

[onecrazyblackredenck]

I pulled out today and floored it next thing I know my gas hand is reading full tank when before that I was on a quarter..stopped at the store and when I cranked it back up my hand was on half a tank.....is this the sending unit? How heavy is the gas tank?>???

[bigcountrysg]

It is the gauge sending unit in the tank. How heavy is the tank well that depends on how much fuel you have in it. I would wait till you get down to about a 1/4 or 1/8 of a tank then drop the tank down.

[onecrazyblackredenck]

it aint to bad to drop the tank is it ? just unbolt the straps and fill neck?? how hard is it to replace the unit?

[99bigred]

if you have to drop the tank and funds allow it id do the in tank mods while it was apart

[dustindiesel]

mine was acting up and someone told me that if u add some techron based diesel cleaner it will help clean the sending unit and may solve ur problem..i added some diesel kleen when mine was acting up and it helped so far...worth a try anyways

[onecrazyblackredenck]

Originally Posted by 99bigred

if you have to drop the tank and funds allow it id do the in tank mods while it was apart

what in tank mods?

[onecrazyblackredenck]

Originally Posted by dustindiesel

mine was acting up and someone told me that if u add some techron based diesel cleaner it will help clean the sending unit and may solve ur problem..i added some diesel kleen when mine was acting up and it helped so far...worth a try anyways

ill try that

[bigcountrysg]

It takes about 30 minutes at the most to drop the tank and open it up. Be advised though the dealer wants around 300 dollars for a new sending unit. I found one at the local junkyard I got the whole tank for 150. I just used the pick up tube assembly from that tank on my tank.

[speedr1425]

I waited until the low fuel light came on and drove another 20 miles before i dropped my tank. It made it easy to remove being that low on fuel.

[alabamafrog]

I used the electric fuel pump to pump the last of it out through the filter drain after I drove it to as near empty as I dared by jumping power to it or cycling the key. The tank probably weight less than 30 pounds. It will cost you around $35 to do the intank and prepump filter mods and I highly recommend doing it, well worth the effort in my opinion. Take a look at the pics I took when I did it to mine.
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