My reply oh heck more money to spend on the Hilux :roll: Well this evening I removed the fuel tank, this is how you must go about the process.
1. Disconnect the battery, if you have a dual system disconnet them as well.
2. Get out your jerry cans
3. Syfon out as much of the petrol from the tank as possible
4. Now you will see six 12mm head spanner bolts at the front and six 12mm headed bolts at the rear, remove the front three bolt and then the bottom three at the rear, you can then remove the rock guard, be careful that it does not fall on you when you loosen the last bolt off.
5. You will now see three bolts in front and three at the rear, just loosen these bolts off, but do not remove them yet.
6. Now loosen off the hose clamp on the main filler fuel pipe, next to this pipe you will see a thinner pipe as well, loosen it off as well.
7. On top of the tank, you will see an additional three pipes, the one on its own is the breather pipe and then you will see two other pipes, loosen off all these pipes.
8. Now remove the two electrical wires that are going to the fuel gauge.
9. Once you are satisfied that there are no more pipes attached, some cases you might have a link up to an extra tank.
10. Use a suitable bolt and push it slightly into the open end of the various pipes, this will prevent dirt and debri from contamination the interior of the pipes.
Wear some safety glasses while working under your vehicle, depending on your Mods on your Hilux, you might have to lift the vehicle with a trolley Jack and place some vehicle stands safely in position under the rear axle tube on each side, I am lucky my vehicle is heigh enough so I do not have to lift it.
11. Now loosen off the bolts, remove them and support the tank with your friend helping you, PLEASE NOTE DO NOT USE AN ELECTRICAL OPEN GLOBE TYPE LEAD LIGHT
12. Now you can slowly lower the fuel tank to the ground, use a funnel and drain out the rest of the fuel that is in the tank also into a jerry can, make sure that you store the fuel in a suitable place that is safe.
13. Do not smoke while doing this job
On my tank I have found that there is a pin prink rust hole, will be taking it to Silverton in the morning for them to repair it.
Now how many of you are aware that the single cab and the double cab Hilux, their fuel tanks are not the same?
And to add some confusion to this subject, I have two spare fuel tanks and the one is even smaller than the one that came out of my Hilux and the other one that is sloped towards the front for the double cab Hilux application.
Some pic's will follow
