Rogue4x4

Good lord. You know someone else has done it already, LMAO

XJwonders

I also read a thread here, not sure if u remember it or not, but an idiot accidently drove a self tapping screw a little too far and it went into the plastic tank. Lol.

cruiser54

Nuh-uh. I posted before i knew. Neener-neener.

Rogue4x4

LOL

ehall

If you can find a donor, cut a larger piece of floorboard and do an overlay

Rubber well nuts would probably work good, just drop them through the top then pull up the bottom

Rogue4x4

Not a bad idea. I've been reading this morning. I'm thinking, after seeing what some others have done, that in order to do it properly, I'd just have to drop the tank anyways. Seeing as I want my jeep on the road sooner and not later, I think I'm just gonna old school it. I got a good pump, so I shouldn't have to do this again for quite a while.

However, I may come back and revisit this later. A couple of members here have also done the "tank tuck" to gain clearance out back, so may consider that as well. I feel that to do it right, I would probably go the donor floorpan route, and put threaded mounting points in from the bottom. No self tappers for this guy, LOL

SG Mason

If you are going to drop the tank anyhow and will need to drop it again to make an access hole for the future, you might as well make the hole while you have the tank off. No use in going through the aggravation of dropping the tank a second time.

My Dodge Stealth has the fuel pump access hole in the cargo area, as does my brother's Buick.

Today I am going to pull the 4wd indicator switch and try to get it working again. I don't need the little light to come on to know I am in 4wd, but I want it to work all the same. This weekend it is u-joints. Will do the rear drive shaft for sure and maybe the front axles if the DS goes well and the weather holds up. Still need to pick up the joints for the front DS, but they are ordered.

Rogue4x4

Well, I could do this...however my jeep has been non-op for 5 months during the stroker swap. I want it back. So, if I'm just going to drop the tank anyways, I'm doing it the fastest way possible. I agree now would be the time to do it, but I really want to enjoy the fruits of my labor first, rather than get into another project.

jtm01xj

I do fuel pumps on ford cargo vans like that all the time. It's usually a hour job to drop the tank and pull the pump out but cutting the floor takes 10 minutes to cut the floor out and change the pump and then just slap a big piece of sheet metal and seal it with silicone.

Strmtrooper70

Thanks i put some edge trim on them to give them that finished look too.

HS00XJ

ha ha if you got an airtech fuel pump I see the hole coming in handy.

a_shirey

Got the title changed to my name and bought Chesapeake Bay tags. First vehicle that has ever legally been mine.

Rogue4x4

Bosch all the way. LMAO

SatiricalHen

Put in some truck lite led head lights.

Bluelight

I thought about cutting the whole when I did mine, but I changed it at around 160,000 miles and used a Bosch pump, so I figured I'd probably never have to do it again. Mine wasn't a fail pump, but instead the bottom strainer was plugged up. I disassembled the old pump assembly and saw that the original pump was also a Bosch.


Did you get just the pump or the complete assembly? If you got the whole thing, can you post a pic of the bottom intake strainer? On mine, it was HUGE compared to the old one.