Silverado gas tank strap failure!!

[YENKO DEUCE REGISTRY]

I'm starting to worry about my '04.....

[budnate]

not just the Chev's, Dodge guys have been having the same problem for awhile now..... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img] for some reason it likes to hit the area behind the fuel tank first, it hangs tight to the frame rail, guess it gets wet and stays wet back there longer.

[67 Nova Boy]

I just did front and rear gas tanks/filler necks/lower straps/rear frame shackles/all brake lines/Calipers/backing plates/rotors/rear wheel cylinders/ball joints/front inner/outer u joints/front fenders/rear quarter patches...all rusted from the really cool little white lines in the streets that they put down in the winter on my 96 F250.

I hate that stuff that they put down! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/thumbsdown.gif[/img]

Dave
67 Nova Boy

[njsteve]

An addendum to the prior posts: If your fuel lines and brake lines are rusty and you replace them, make sure you drop the tank and replace the sending unit as well. The factory fuel lines have a rubber section that is crimped onto an additional length of steel line that connects to the sending unit outlets. The other day after filling the truck up with diesel I saw a puddle under the front of the tank where it was running down from the topside. Looking through the fenderwell with a flashlight we could see that the outlets were corroded so I ordered a new sending unit for $70 from rockauto.com. We dropped the tank and this is what the sending unit looked like. We were also not happy with how the tank looked so I ordered a new one from rockauto which should be here next week. Lots of crud was in the bottom and after checking with a mirror inside we saw corrosion on the inside ceiling of the tank.

Here's the old sending unit: