So am finally biting the big ticket bullet for a Trasfer Flow 47 gallon replacement gasoline tank. I was hoping that Titan nylon would get a gasoline tank replacement but they say they never will. The TF video shows it to be a faily simple operation, but my installer says it will take all day. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions before i take the plunge?

Pap

 

I haven't put in a TransferFlow but I did have the tank out of my 2003. My truck is a 5.4, 4x4, extended cab, short bed. Two of the bolts for the straps were run in from the outside of the frame on the drivers side, one is pretty obvious but the other was hidden inside the front spring hanger. The other 2 are run vertically towards the center of the truck and can't be missed.

You may want to consider dropping the rear driveshaft. I didn't but I had to stack like 16" of extensions to be able to get to the bolt and have room to swing the ratchet. I am also skinny so I was able to drop the tank some of the way and climb onto it from the front disconnecting everything as I went (the filler has to be disconnected before the tank will drop enough to do that). If you won't fit my next recommendation is that it would be more accessible from the center of the truck if the driveshaft was out of the way.

If you have a transmission jack it would be my recommendation for how to raise and lower the jack. I did it with muscle, jackstands, and a floor jack. I don't think the transmission jack is worth paying for just for this job though. My way probably wouldn't have worked so well with a full tank so drain it if you are going that way.

 

Thanks for the heads up, I printed your directions for the installer.

Pap

 

Have you thought about a transfer tank in the bed? There's a company in Perry that makes them. I'm debating along the lines of getting on.

 

I have a below rail tool box and don't have much room in my bed as is so the stock replacement is my on;y choice at this point. It goes in this morning for the operation.

 

i dont know what farkus888 had problems with, but when i did mine there are only four 12mm head bolts hold the skid plate on then two bolts hold the strap to the truck on the drive shaft side. A simple 12" extension is all thats needed to remove the two strap bolts and the other side of the strap has a hinge so they just swing open and out of the way. I used a 3 ton jack with a 6"x6" cut to three foot long to hold the tank and i then lowered it and pulled her out of my truck. Took me twenty minutes top doing it by myself on my driveway, it should take your "mechanic" two hours tops!

 

I had a fixed labor cost of $300 but it took them most of the day; problems with removing my spare tire which had never been removed in 7 years and I couldn't find the darn lock, but finlly did. They needed to remove it to put in the added vapor canister to keep up with Obama's clean air. They did remove the drive shaft as well. I filled up and almosr had cash failure, but I expected that. I did find out one thing, the last tank full before this I used non-ethanol gas nnd gained 2 mpg and alot more power. That's what I am going to find from now on.

 

$300 for labor isn't bad BUT they did alot of unnecessary work for nothing

 

Man those hinges in the straps did nothing for me except make it harder to get the bolts lined up putting it back together. I think they would have been much more useful on the center side instead of swinging an inch and hitting the frame long before they swung out of the way. As for the driveshaft clearance it didn't even occur to me but I have a 1 piece shaft and a 6" lift so my driveshaft is probably lower than most. Low enough that my tank had to go lower to get to the connectors but not low enough to work above the shaft unfortunately.