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[NJGearhead666]

Well tonight I take my truck out to meet a buddy of mine for dinner and a beer. now then i left the house the new rear tank is empty and the front tank is at almost a 1/4 tank, Ive never let it get that low since i got the truck cause up untill a week ago it was the only working tank. so we eat and crap and i get back in my rig to get home to the gf. I start my truck and then after a minute of running to warm up it dies so i crank it and crank it and nothing. so after a few seconds of some yelling to the truck, (which to people coming out of the resturant must have been entertaining) I relize I remember reading all sorts of stuff on oilburners that the pickup has a habit of falling off in the tank. so i walk 400 feet up the road to a station that has diesel back and forth a few times with my gallon gas can got her started with a few crank cycles and off i went to fill her up.

Had i know read about the problem here i would have just cursed and called my friend to tow her home.

 

[4play]

there is only 2 ways to tell if your pickup screen assy has fallen off the tube. and you found out the easier/quicker way. sorry for the luck

 

[icanfixall]

You can pull the front tank sender easily without removing the tank. It has a large ring and a hammer and screw driver will turn it loose. Thats about it. Then add some diesel rated fuel line to the end of the 3/8 line and you all set to draw down that last 1/4 of the tank...

 

[subway]

You can pull the front tank sender easily without removing the tank. It has a large ring and a hammer and screw driver will turn it loose. Thats about it. Then add some diesel rated fuel line to the end of the 3/8 line and you all set to draw down that last 1/4 of the tank...

yup and dont forget to notch the end of the tub so it cant suck down solid against the bottom of the tank.

still need to fix my rear tank.

 

[sle2115]

Or, your sender is off, like mine! I see 1/4 tank and I get REAL worried! My pickup is fine, but the sending unit shows 1/4 tank when empty...I too found all this out the hard way! Rear tank will be all but dry as the gauge approaches empty, but the front tank is "off"!

 

[LCAM-01XA]

Ha, my front don't even read at all, thing is DEAD! Rear is good tho, reads empty at 5 gallons left in it

 

[subway]

Or, your sender is off, like mine! I see 1/4 tank and I get REAL worried! My pickup is fine, but the sending unit shows 1/4 tank when empty...I too found all this out the hard way! Rear tank will be all but dry as the gauge approaches empty, but the front tank is "off"!

i imagine you could bend your arm to compensate, the sender arm that is.

 

[tractorman86]

both of mine bounce all over the place, i never know how much fuel i have.

 

[NJGearhead666]

yea the hose pickup is going to happen soon. how many gallons is the front tank?

 

[1989f2507.3idi]

mine to finaly i got her fixed

 

[mankypro]

you can also pull the bed if you want to avoid dropping the tanks. In my case it's the easier route if you have 4 friends around

 

[icanfixall]

Front tank is 19.2 and rear is around 17.4...

 

[LCAM-01XA]

Front tank is 19.2 and rear is around 17.4...

Wait, I though the rear tank is 19 gallons too?

 

[NJGearhead666]

you can also pull the bed if you want to avoid dropping the tanks. In my case it's the easier route if you have 4 friends around

I would like to take the bed off one day so i can por15 the rest of the frame but I have a bed box that runs down the driverside bed rail and its packed with crap and then i have the bed liner so to get the liner out to get to the bolts the box has to go just is such a pain i didnt bother. but when i was doing the rear thank i wished i could have

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

yea the hose pickup is going to happen soon. how many gallons is the front tank?

Front tank is 19.2 and rear is around 17.4...

Wait, I though the rear tank is 19 gallons too?

It all depends on just which tanks Ford decided to put in your truck.

When ran down to EMPTY, my steel front will take about twenty-gallon to fill it up in the neck; same for my plastic rear tank.


I have never ran out of fuel to the point that there was no drawable fuel left in the tanks; I have, however, been ran out of fuel on a number of occassions by faulty electric fuel-valves, clogged up strainer-screens, and such, when there was plenty of fuel in the tanks.