thanks jbrew finally got the tank out and it may be dirtier than the scope led on to wow what a pain in the a** i neve thought i would miss the tank behind the seat but i could take the tank out of my 69 in less than 20 min this took an hour and a half and i made a boo boo there is a electrical connector on the back of the tank with some plastic thing attacked to the tank anybody know what this is? do i really need it? is it expensive to replace? can i glue it?

 

ok hows this i started to take the pump out of the rest of the assembly and the short peice of hose going from the pump to the hard lines is split all the way up one side go figure i will probally go ahead and change the pump any way since i have the tank down and with my luck ill fix the hose and after 2 weeks of driving the pump will quit ugh!!!!

 

Wow! No kidding , the line split!!! Haven't heard of that happening yet. Yea , I think I would replace the pump as well. Did the strap bolts bust or did dropping the tank go well ? I imagine my pumps gotta be close to failing, so I'll probably have that job in the near future- I got my money's worth, this ones got 180,000 thousand on it lol. The dealership changed it tho, so I haven't had the privilege yet.. - The first one had only 90,000 when it went.

 

haha jbrew.... remember I Had to drop my tank and pull the pump 5 times in 3 days!? its easy now! 10 minutes and its down

 

bolts chattered out just fine but all the conections (hoses and electric) here in az only take 2-3 years and rubber welds itself to metal and plastic and the elec connectors get filled up with dirt and they usually break before they come loose so most of mine wind up with heat shrink so they do not fall back apart. now a very important question does any body know what this small black dohickey is it was near the back of the tank and had a 3 wire plug going to it will try to upload a pic here in awhile but the darn thing broke on me and i kinda broke it a little more trying to extract it normally i would jus look it up on the motorcraft website but there is no part # so

 

Yea , But I thought it was like 5 times in one day

 

well it was 3 times the first day lol....

 

What broke?



Heres the canister above the rear axle -




Check out this gallery(link below) - there's pics of your model with the bed off- also theres allot of tech diagrams - you might want to save this, it comes in handy -

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ginator=bottom

 

cool #5 is the culprit pesky little thing and ill bet its a dealer only item
i may try to jb weld it back together

i posted some photos on photobucket i couldnt get a gallery going here for some reason and im not sure im doing this right but here we go

http://s287.photobucket.com/albums/l...av_album_album

 

called the dealership the little peice of plastic it the fuel tank pressure sensor and those @%$#%*& @&^#%$@! want 99$ for it just about had a heart attack im going to try jb welding it back together if not im going to hit the junk yards no way im paying 99$ for something that the truck doesnt really need other than the engineers figured another way to squeeze some more $$$$$$$ out of somebody

 

IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!
still runs a little bit rough but at least now i should be able to run it around and see if any codes pop up

Jbrew you have been really helpful and so have all of you thanks and the very next time im up your way i owe you a thanks again.


changed
coil packs,plugs,wires,fuel filter,fuel pump,cleaned throttle body,IAC,EGR, and the whole time it was $.26 2.5" peice of rubber hose

 

IT'S ALIVE !! That's what I just said after planting a 9 hp Briggs & Straton engine in place of a 5 hp Tecumseh on an commercial blower. - Wow can that thing clear a driveway !! Unfortunately I took my hands off the controls for a minute to move something out of the way and that thing took off back wards (I had it blowing from the front WIDE OPEN) - Well, I went running for it , but I couldn't catch it and put a nice dent in my garage door ^%##$%!!! ANOTHER thing that needs fixing now

Anyway , glad you got her goin again.

 

ouch lol. we dont have that problem here im outside of tucson az and we dont even use lawmmowers... it gets to expensive changing out windows especially on the neighbors house(yes i learned the hard way ) so now when the weeds get too bad i use my old busted up explorer that i only use for yard work and drag a 900lb homemade plow around (dusty but efective)

 

Brew, only you would hop up a leaf blower..........did you put a header on it too?

 

Jbrew,
I may be laughing at this one for awhile. I can almost picture you running after it. lol lol
Next time I run into a problem and I am frustrated, just remind me of this story and it will change my frustration into a good laugh. Stinks about the garage door tho.
Sorry man, still

TJK