Changing Gas Tanks in my OBS Ford F250 in the Snow, in my Driveway!
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- This time at the Quick Speed Shop I'm having a gas of a time putting two new fuel tanks in Project Green Machine, my 1995 Ford F250 OBS extended cab truck. My truck is the long wheel base so it has the 19 gal front tank and 18 gal rear tank. I reused the rear straps, but installed new front straps. The total job was about 5 - 5.5 hrs with hand tools and wasn't too bad. Both OG tanks leaked and the new tanks were protected with some lanolin rust prevention. All parts were ordered from Rock Auto.
Rear tank: SPECTRA PREMIUM F1G 18 gal
Front tank: SPECTRA PREMIUM F6C 19 gal
Front straps: SPECTRA PREMIUM ST03
Lanolin rust prevetion: Fluid Film Black and Woolwax Black
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I bought an old building in a small Texas town and I found a 1989 Ford F25 4x4 truck in the back of the building. It was parked there in 2000. The inspection sticker was 2000. It has 40,000 miles on the odometer and the previous owner told me that he parked it there and forgot about it, and that the mileage was correct. It hasn't been started in 23 years. I put new tires on it, changed all the fluids, replaced both gas tanks - exactly the same way you did your truck, and today is the day I find out if my efforts have paid off. I'm about to start her up for the first time in 23 years - wish me luck!
That sounds like a great truck. Good luck, should fire up!
Seeing this makes me extremely thankful I live in the southwestern part of Colorado. Rust like that doesn't happen here. Only other thing I'd do for piece of mind would be replace the pumps, straps, hardware, and rubber components. I wouldn't trust a unknown, possibly original... nearly 28 year old pump. I wouldn't want to do that job more than once. I have bad luck with things, so YMMV!
I just finished this job but I went with the F26E Bronco 38gal rear tank and installed Bean's Diesel sumps for the new electric fuel pump. I'm in Florida and have had my Florida truck since 96 and am so glad I don't have that rust issue. The job was fairly easy and now I have 57 gals total. 407K and my truck is is very nice condition still.
This is a very useful video, thank you for sharing
Looking at this on mine. With a polar opposite...90'+ and no wind on a dirt floor. Oh boy! Thanks for walking it thru
Oh yeah! some old F150 action, I thought of you one day last month, I was handed paperwork and keys to a vehicle for repair and my first thought oh boy them are some old keys and paperwork said 95 F150. I got lucky it had lived it whole life right here in Phoenix Az. and every nut and bolt came loose with no troubles. thanks for these AWESOME video's.
Yeah, must be nice! I've had bolts break off on 5 year old cars here in NY!
Good Job... You make it look easy!!!!
If the engineers that designed these had to work on them we wouldn’t have in tank fuel pumps.
5.5 hrs for 2 tanks wow good job budd
Good job.
My 95 front tank sprung a leak underneath the front of it where the factory put
a plastic guard to protect it from stones. The connections were a bear to get off!
The rear tank is still the original as are both pumps. Got my fingers crossed the
pumps don't quit & the rear tank holds up
Was about to respond but I see first comment here knows what's up lol. Down in Central Texas doing one to see what I'm getting into as to not break anything ect.. and so thankful because yours looks so rough!
Texas truck should have no problems!
that's the tank I want galvinized and made in Canada Thanks!
Ya i got a comment wish i had my man putting my gas tanks in my truck kool dude
you're a better man than me doing that on the ground! you said in a previous video that the new pole barn is going to have a 21x21 work area with a lift.... I would leave it all open, putting the f250 on a lift in a 21 foot deep bay would be tight. take my advice with a grain of salt, I am only speaking from my experience
Yeah, I hear you on the shop size, but really don't have room for anything larger with all the other cars I have stored in there. I wish I had made the building twice as big, but built what I could do at the time.
Who has a cold bum NOW...! Shelly Has.
Thats wats up,.. I have the exact truck
All that work and you reused the old sending unit? damn.
Nothing wrong with them, they're stainless steel
That is one of those crappy jobs that know one wants to do. Interesting jack stands !
The stands are all stainless steel. I got them from a friend that used to work at Kodak where he had easy access to stainless steel scraps. They work awesome and are super steady.
Cold? Where's the snow, ice and wind? That's what I'm looking at this week in my driveway in central Wyoming...
That video was last year. Done plenty of snow work this year.
Well aren’t you special.
I can see why you definitely would want to use something like Fluid Foam to protect your fig where they use salt on the roads. They have started to do that here in southwest Washington the last couple years, who ever thought that was a good ‘ide-er’ , we sure didn’t vote on it. Question, does that Fluid Foam ever dry?
Salt is the worst. I live 30 min from the largest rock salt mine in the northeast. Its terrible and ruins every single car driven in it. The Fluid Film doesn't ever dry. It mixes with dirt and makes a water and salt impervious grime that covers and protects everything. I'll take a grimey underside over my truck rotting away any day.
What the heck is the smaller hose coming from the filler neck into the regular filler neck hose? I saw that taking mine apart and was wondering if it was OEM. Watching your video I see it is. Right now wishing I had some help and would just take the bed off. . . That filler hose is a pain. And, my exhaust pipe is much closer to the drive shaft so not much room to get to the top of the tank to unhook things. . . Thanks for the video.
It's the filler vent so the gas doesn't blow back on fillup.
Sure don't work on mine. Gas has to go in very slow or it does back up. . .
@@QuickSpeedShop
Looks like the rust prevention makes every repair a nasty one. Does it wash out of the coveralls easy or are they waxy for life?
It wrecks the coveralls, but I keep a junk pair for nasty stuff like this.
I’m doing this in my 95 f250 midship tank and looking at your fuel pump I think they gave me the wrong fuel pump wrong straps but the right tank fuel pump I bought has 3 ports on it not 2
There are 2 mid tanks, 16 gal and 18/19 gal depending on shortbed or longbed. Straps might differ. 3 port pump might be for '87-'91 trucks. Look stuff up on RockAuto. You can look at pictures of parts there.
thanks so much. i just stripped rust off my OBS undercarriage and corosealed and raptor lined it. I also replaced rear filler neck. my rear tank is leaking. I have several pin holes and need to replace rear tank. i did have it partially removed. Question: how do rear fuel supply/return lines disconnect? are they couplings ? Thanks sm!
They are a quick connect fitting that requires a special fuel line tool. I did a video on this truck where I replaced the fuel filter and I showed the tool and how it works.
@@QuickSpeedShop thanks I ordered the tool on Amazon ✌️
I wonder why you didn't take the opportunity to put in a 38 gallon rear tank?
Because the truck already can hold that about with the stock tanks and can run over 400 miles that way.
@@QuickSpeedShop I haul my 28 foot race trailer all over the place, I have a stock front tank, a 38 rear and a 108 bed tank, good for about 12-1400 miles, time spent looking for fuel otherwise adds up to too much down time for me.
Wast of money, had to cut the float into and add a peace just to fall off later, modified the straps to fit, couldn’t put my spare tire under anymore, Just use the right size tanks and enjoy it, I didn’t drive it enough to need the larger tank anyway,
you did not show how to undo the gas line
Watch this video. I show the tool to get the lines apart. ua-cam.com/video/cbLzgLzk5mo/v-deo.html