Ok so here’s how this all turned out. Spent most of yesterday getting the tank out and the hangers changed over to the new tank and the new sender installed. A couple take always..... with the rear of the tank lower then the front I could reach up with a long screw driver and pop the sender wire off but I couldn’t get the rubber fuel lines off so I cut them. I did measure the distance between the hangers so I could set them in the same position so I had no issues with the bolts when I went back together, that worked well. Going back together was not as straight forward, the big problem seemed to be connecting the short rubber lines, what ended up working was putting the short fuel line on the sender first and clamped it before putting the tank up, then loosned the short steel lines that run behind the cab and when the tank was fully in position I could feed the steel fuel line into the rubber line already installed on the sender. Then I could drop the tank a little and with a really long pair of harbor freight Vice grips I could then put the vapor line on in the same manor. I also found with the tank lowered slightly I could reach up between the tank and the frame and over the tank and put the sender wire on by feel. The rest of the install went without a hitch. Would I do it again? Probably.... but not alone! But on a good note I only skinned one knuckle!
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