How do you remove - drop a gas tank on a Ford Taurus - Sable?

Answer 1

The basics are pretty logical:

• Put out your cigarette
• Call a buddy to lend a hand
• drain it
• disconnect fill tube
• Loosen bolts on mounting straps
• Review for disconnecting wiring and fuel lines now - or - after the tank is lowered (access and length of wire & fuel line connections)
• Properly support tank - prepare for lowering
• With 4 pair of hands in place, remove strap bolts and lower to terra firma
• If wires & fuel lines are still hooked up, disconnect

Since the fuel pump is inside the gas tank, the "Related Questions" below offer much information and first-hand experience on dropping the gas tank.

Since the fuel pump is inside the gas tank, the instructions for replacing a fuel pump also covers the removal of the tank.

Draining: no drain plug on the tank means you'll be using a siphon hose or a small hand pump to drain the gas out.

Tips:

• No Smoking!
• Have lots of penetrating oil like PB Blaster around. Those strap bolts can be pretty nasty - exposed to all the road salts and such
• This is job that is best done with an extra pair of hands to help control the tank coming down, and getting it back up

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There are 4 bolts around the tank you need to take off then there is a stabilizer at the front center that needs to be taken off too. Then there is the fuel inlet and breather at top rear for filling up the tank held on by hose clamps. that will drop the tank. But if you need to get to the fuel pump an hoses you can take out the back seat and on the floor boar there is a door unscrew it and you can get to the pump to replace it...

Access door?I've never heard of a Taurus/Sable having a fuel pump access door/panel - it may have been a limited model year design.

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