1986 Ford Mustang Fuel Tank Strap 2 Piece Set TRQ FSA07873

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This is part 2 of reinstalling the tank in this Ford Mustang, and again this repair is the same for most vehicles; it's basically disconnecting the fuel lines and electrical connections to the tank, pulling the tank down, then changing over anything you want to change over or installing new items, and then replacing the tank and here's a look at the tools you will need.

Remember I talked about putting new settings in? You can see this is a little crusty here so what I'm going to do is use a cold chisel and a wire brush and clean up around these, here and here. After that I'll figure out where the lock rings are and I'll show you how to undo the lock rings. This can unplug. Once you clean up here pretty good, you can see the little bend over there and then there's a little tap of metal sticking up right there. You want to take your cold chisel or a screwdriver or something and actually contact this right here. It's good to get all three to try and get it going. Now it's moving pretty well. There's the ring, and there's my sending unit on this one. This just pulls right up, the grommet. Grab that as well as this, on this side.

Put the grommet back on, get the sending unit back in here. What is going on? Obviously I'm trying to get as little dirt in there as possible, hopefully none. Okay our new tank comes with a new lock ring and an O-ring so you want to make sure you put the O-ring down in there. The sending unit does have tabs that line up with slots so you can't really put it in the wrong place. I guess you could but you would really have to force it. Put the sending unit down in there, take the lock ring and make sure it's going underneath all three tabs.

Okay so that one is started. I'll do this one; we'll take the old lock ring off. This sending unit is a little fun, okay, how it goes in, so I'm going to take it all the way out so I can sure you here. Like I said, think about replacing your sending unit when you do this. You're going to put it down in. When you get to here, you want to pull it up and turn it around. This is my rubber gasket. So put the rubber gasket down into its groove and here are the spaces of the tab there. It goes down into that slot. Sometimes it can be challenging to get these down in beyond the ears. Put the lock ring on, get it started, and then it's just like taking them out.

Then we'll do that to the other side. Then we've also taken our grommet over here for where the fuel filter goes in. I've cleaned it up a little bit, and we'll put it back in.

Okay so now we want to get the straps out. Basically, you kind of lift up and then probably get a pair of needle-nose pliers in here and get hold of the bolt here and just pull it out. There are two different straps; you want the longer one on the passenger side. Put it up in there, and then push that in there. Same thing for the other side.

We got a new tank. It's all set in the little plastic protector. I put all the pads I transferred all the pads and duct tape and everything. They just help to reduce noise and vibration so we're ready to put it up in.

Feeding my hoses through their clip over here, hook up this hose, pull these hoses down a little more, looks pretty good, hook up my electrical connection. Next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to hold the tank up; these down here. I'm going to put my jack right under my strap. You don't want to be shy with the jack; you want to jack the strap right up in there, and then get the bolt going. Once you got one side, then you can move the jack over to the other side. Then once you got both of them in then you want to tighten them right up nice and snug. It might help you there too. I got a block of wood right up under the strap to help me with that. Okay now we're going to re-hook up our lines so we're going to put this little lock nylon up in there. Put the line up in, bring the lock down, push that up on, and pull the lock down into it. On this one, put it on the filter, push on it nice and tight and then put this lock right through. This one's all set. Tank's tight, connections are hooked up, and all we have to do, is we need to drill a little hole right here and we're going to drill it right on the outside of the weld here. You can see where the weld is right here; we're going to drill it on the outside so we can bolt that back up and then put our bolts back into the filler neck, the four down below, the three up top. Put some gas in it and we should be all set.

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