Thread: Shop Truck (True Spirit) Project

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There were a couple of problems that I knew about going into this. It only came with a Chevy/aftermarket sending unit and it was set up for AN fittings. On the bright side the fill neck is exactly the right size for the fill hose from the bed side to slip over.

The sender turned out not to be a huge deal, the sender that was in the tank was quite a bit smaller than the OE dodge sender. It simply required making the hole larger. Unfortunately with the length of the stock arm it would not have even started showing anything other than full until after over ½ a tank had been used. I lengthened the arm. I also had to shorten the pickup tube and eliminate the sock in order to be able to make the unit fit in the hole. Although I would prefer to run the sock, it really doesn’t bother me not to it’s a new clean tank and I will be running an in-line filter after the tank. I also figured while I was at it I would shorten the vent pipe that leads back to the fuel neck. Hopefully this will let it get fuller before it starts kicking gas pump on when I’m filling it.

The AN fittings were pretty simple. They are thick enough to be drilled and tapped for ¼ NPT threads. The fuel pickup was plugged the vent and return line were fitted with 90 degree barb fittings