After just three days of ownership, my 2004 Ranger Edge how is reading 0 fuel. Assuming it is the sender inside the tank, if I put the rear end up on jack stands and remove the tires, can I slide the bed back far enough to get to the sender?

Will it slide just on the frame or must it be lifted up?

Thanks!

 

Many suggest just tilting the bed to one side or the other. Some say just lift the front end of the bed, and support it with a step stool or step ladder, or some 2X4s, cut to a good length. Unless you have help, I'd tilt it instead of trying to slide it. You can use stacks of wood placed under the front of the bed, on the frame rails, to hold the bed and jack it up in steps using a floor jack if nothing else. Just work your way up enough for access, do your sender work, and 'walk' it down, removing from the stack in steps. Take a bit longer, but pretty safe.
tom

 

if memory serves there are six bolts that hold the bed down and 3 screws under gas door and a clamp on the filler tube and unhook tail light plug or plugs, after doing this for a friend we slid the bed back just far enough to get to the tank ( back of bed was hanging in mid air) careful not to push on hanging bed the tank cap was unscrewed and we replaced the pump and float retightened the tank cap and slide bed back and replaced the bolts and screws,,, not hard to do if you have a couple of friends willing to do a little lifting,,,,tilting to one side might work also,,,others opp to remove the tank ,,,i think that would be the hardest way

 

Do you recall whether you had to jack up the rear end to remove the tires?

Seems that would allow for more room going backwards on the frame but I'm not sure where that tank fitting is underneath.

 

Pretty sure the tires stay in place, even sliding the bed rearward. If you have 'liners' that you are concerned will impact(get scrunched by) the tires, you can remove them.
If you tilt sideways or upwards, the tires have no interference.
tom

 

If I read this right, the fuel sender Has been working, but stopped, if its been working, try adding a 20oz dose of Chevron Techron Concentrate Plus at the pump before filling & see if it'll clean the sender contacts & wake it up. Chevron claims Techron will clean corrosion off the sender & wake em up, it did for my 78 Merc Zypher.

 

we did not remove tires ,,, but could see doing it might make job easy,,pawpaw makes a great point,,,try cleaning first,,,pawpaw is very good at troubles and gives great advice

 

You can slide the bed back maybe three quarters of an inch before it hits the rear bumper.

 

take the bed bolts out,,,, under rear bumper unplug the tailights take 3 screws out of the filler neck and the bed will lift off,, with mine it took 2 of us just to pick up and set off on ground,,,every thing is exposed then....

 

i do not recommend sitting bed on ground ,,, ranger beds are not the thickest metal and bend easy,,,, if you remove bed completely i recommend sitting it on saw horses at least