Faulty Fuel Sender

[Puffwagon]

Fun fact: I lived on Delaney Creek Road in 1985 and caught my first fish in a creek there. 

[bossmang]

my ute wasnt driveable so I just unbolted the tub, jacked it up enough to to slide under, swap fuel pumps. lowered tub. bolt all back together. 

 

def would do it azzas way if I could have towed it to workshop but cbf. 

[bamk2f6tornado]

Iv recently had my tub off and fuel sender out and I rekon the easiest way is to just take the tub liner out and drill out the 6.spot welds. Lift up the floor panel n it's right there. No lying on the floor and no lifting the heavy tub

[OZYWALKER]

^^^
Whs, pulling the the liner out and drilling out a few spot welds is the easiest way if you don't have a hoist.

[bossmang]

yer def just do that. I wasnt game enough to haha

 

too bad the dumb ass ford engineers didnt make it a trap door flap or something. 

[Puffwagon]

Must be the same guys who designed the honda odyssey.

 

I replaced a fuel pump recently and do you think there was a hole in the floor? 

 

No, I had to drop the tank. Ironically there was a hole in the floor for the sender but not the pump. 

[k31th]

lol

engineers don't have to work on them after they're assembled... isn't that the usual problem?

[camo86T]

12 hours ago, bamk2f6tornado said:

Iv recently had my tub off and fuel sender out and I rekon the easiest way is to just take the tub liner out and drill out the 6.spot welds. Lift up the floor panel n it's right there. No lying on the floor and no lifting the heavy tub

 

12 hours ago, OZYWALKER said:

^^^
Whs, pulling the the liner out and drilling out a few spot welds is the easiest way if you don't have a hoist.

 

What they said

I cut the LH side of that floor panel off and ditched it, replaced with a staino sheet I drilled and screwed to the cross members, now have easy access.

Tub liner out in 5min (plenty practice). Thinking I should cut a rectangular hole in the liner and fit a low profile tool box over the top for ultimate access.

[bossmang]

I wish I had just cut the floor out when I did mine, got worried about the spark and fuel dont mix sorta thing. or was there a better way?

 

fkn ford engineers 

[OZYWALKER]

Drill the spot welds out then bend the sheet up and cut away. Or just drill out all the spot welds.

I fitted nutserts all around the tub frame under the sheet so its a quick job for next time.