Silverado gas tank strap failure!!

[bwag]

Yesterday morning on the way to breakfast a loud scraping noise started coming from under my 2000 Silverado shorty. When I stopped to troubleshoot ,I found my gas tank sitting on the ground with both straps rusted off.Thanks to a ratcheting cargo strap I got the tank lifted up and was able to drive to a local service station.We lifted it up and were able to install 2 new straps without a lot of trouble. Just a heads up to all the pickup drivers, the factory straps were dipped in some sort of rubber coating and rusted off without any tell tale signs on the outside.If you have a high mile truck do yourself a favor and change your tank straps before they fail. The gas station techs claim they are changing a lot of these along with the rusty rear leaf spring shakles.