Alright so im in the process of puting a built non fuel injected 302 into an 89 f150 short bed regular cab. Im running a fuel pump off the motor for now and because of that i need to gut my gas tank. Anybody have any suggestions on doing this?

 

what are you gonna gut out of the tank? i can understand if theres rust and all and that it needs to be cleaned out, but all thats in there(or suppose to be in there) is the pump.

 

Yea im supposed to take the stock electric pump out of the tank because the pump is going to be feeding my carb way to much fuel. If i remember right (correct me if im wrong) the stock pump in there puts out around 35 to 40psi of fuel. for a carb set up you only need around 6psi. So i need to figure out how im going to take my fuel pump out of the tank and run new lines in the tank. got any ideas?

 

Just drop the tank and remove the fuel pump/fuel sending unit combo. It is readily accessible on the top of the tank. Then, replace with a sending unit from a carburated Ford truck. The hole in the top of the tank has not changed in years. No biggie, and no need to tear a tank apart. One further word of advice...have the tank as close to empty as possible before you take it down, it will be MUCH lighter! A neat trick I read about on the forum here is to pull the fuel line going to your engine, place the engine end of it in a gas can and hook up a battery to the existing in tank fuel pump. The fuel will pump right out.

Mike

 

Cant you just change your fuel preasure regulater to bring it down to 6psi.. And keep the pump ???