is that possible? i got a 27 gallon tank now i think could i upgrade that to something bigger? would ford themselves offer that ....

seems like im alwas empty

 

should have bought a truck with the bigger tank... but... you can install it yourself or have someone do it for you... 35.7 gallons... I spend about $90 to fill that damn thing though...

EDIT: Also... if you use ford parts... (I'm not advocating this move at all) there is no way that ford could know if your truck came stock with that tank... Again, this is just me typing out loud... just commenting... ya know...

 

but it will fit right where the old one was right? just being deeper im guessing?

 

I suspect...like most other vehicles I have owned the only difference in the tanks is the lengther of the filler neck. The longer the neck the lower the fuel capacity. Take out the neck and cut the filler hose off some and it will be the same...or just buy the filler neck for the larger tank.

The only real difference I could see is that the sending unit wouldnt be off. At half tank it would read 2/3s and at 1/4 it would read 1/3 or so. Get the correct sending unit and even that would be solved, but I would bet money the tank itself is the same.

 

new sending unit, tank, straps, filler neck... that's everything I can think of right now... might be one or two more little things but those are the big ones...

 

There is an aftermarket company that has them called transferflow. It was a great $95 option on my truck. I love it. Gives me over 500 miles of range on open highway.

 

Which is fine... but don't expect to have any of the 3/36 covered for that tank/pump/etc... unless you return it to ford parts before taking it in

For an FYI... I have replaced a couple, albeit not many, fuel pumps in f150's under warranty...

 

Not like Ford would warrant anything that went wrong with another OEM tank in there. It's not what came with the truck, why would they warrant it?

Now to the original poster, stop more for gas. It's the cheapest solution.

 

Add a 90 gallon tank from northerntool in the bed and have a fuel pump fill the main tank when needed. That should help. Gonna take you a week a the pump to fill up 127 gallons of gasoline. You'll raise the Gross National Product every time you fill up.

 

Legally and technically, no, it's not warrantable... but... with ford parts there... the only way to know that the truck didn't come with the 35.7 gallon tank is to use vbom... and all the techs here know how accurate that is...

EDIT: Forgot an example... I ordered a seat cover for a 07 Exploder based on vbom info... had to order another one when the wrong one came in.

 

I have never seen their replacement tanks, but transferflow's in-bed tanks are very nice. My dad has one of thier 100 gallon tanks that he uses for refueling equipment on job sites and he also has one of their 50 gallon tool box/tank combos for when they are towing the 5th wheel. He has it hooked up to transfer from the bed tank into the truck tank, all with just a flip of the upfitter switch.

I just fueled up my truck today, 33.31 gals---572.9 miles---17.2mpg. The only bad part was $100.42, but it has been 2months since put any gas in the truck

 

2 MONTHS!!!!!! i put $80+ in my tank a week and im just a student.

 

I ordered my truck with the 35.7 gallon tank... love it. But I have the 6.5 bed. I don't know if it would fit on the shorter 5.5 bed. And no, just changing the filler neck will not give you an added 8 gallons of capacity RAMSS/T.
Not to mention that there is a recall for the 27 gallon tank and not for the 35 gallon tank

 

If I were putting $80 in gas into the truck each week I would find a car for a DD, but thats just me. Heck I got the oil changed on the 04 week too, for the second time this year. The first was on 1-8-07 and then this week on 9-4-07, 31XX miles in that time. This past week I also had to fuel up my work truck, which cost me $109 but it was the first time since May, yes May, that I put fuel in that.

Its just one of the benifits of the company I work for, 95% of our jobsites are within 2 miles of my house so in the summer when the weather is nice I either ride bike or take the scoot.

Sorry about derailing the thread.....

 

run a search for swapping out for the larger ford tank...someone here actually priced it out...if i remember correctly it was somewhere around $1k to do the swap.