I'm sure I got a short.

[Brain75]

If you go to a liquor store for corks, no need to ask the counter person, you are looking for the cork recycling bin/box near the front door of the store. Apparently natural real cork is getting a little short so they ask people to recycle and there's a box for it.....

And this wouldn't be free, but homebrewery supply places will sell a bag of 100 corks.
(myself I'd rob a float off anything in the junkyard first if I had a style like yours)

 

[RobbieD]

I'd also check around for a large cork fishing float (AKA a "bobber" among discerning piscatorialists). The ones I remember had the bright yellow coating, which I think helps seal the outer surface from absorbing any water.

If you do find one with the coating, might be a good idea to see if the coating is gas-proof, though.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

So this morning I went to Dayton Ohio's LKQ PickYourPart.

Before going I checked out their website and found they had released a new truck to the public on Saturday 2 days ago.
If you guys want to know more about that go to the truckspotter thread of this form I just posted there a few minutes ago about this truck.

Before I even looked at the new truck I went to the truck that I mentioned yesterday I do believe. It's wrecked and is missing the bed. I do believe it's a 2000 something or other.
I removed the fuel pump assembly and got the float and float arm off of it.

My plan is to try to put this float onto the float arm for my sending unit.

As for the new truck that's at pick your part.
I took two small pieces from it pictures to follow.

Now can anyone tell me what they are named.
And what they are for.

Also while I was running around today I went to three wine and liquor stores not one of them had any cork in the building except for the ones that are in the bottles.

I did look at some floats for fishing bobbers whatever you want to call them but I didn't feel like paying the price they wanted.

So the guy I seen at AutoZone yesterday that I posted about his wife told him to tell me to go to the hobby lobby they sell corks there.

If you look close you will see that both of these four packs of corks are the same thing the upper left hand corner of the label has the same numbers however their priced differently.
I pointed this out to the lady running the cash register she called another lady over I ended up paying the lesser price I told them both I was willing to pay the higher price.

So now my plan is when I do lift my bed up and try and put the new float onto the float arm that I have if it doesn't work after testing I have the corks as a backup.
And therefore will only have to pick my bed up once and can call it done for this job. At least for a year or so so I can save up to buy a lifetime warranty fuel pump assembly.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

So is filling my kitchen sink with water and placing the fuel float I got today and seeing if it floats or not, a good test?

Isn't water thicker then gas?
If so the float would float faster in water then gas, right?

 

[SenorNoob]

I don't think thicker is the right word. More like denser. But yes.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I agree, @SenorNoob.
But I'm a little slow at reading having dyslexia at all.
So I realize other people are slow as well in the same way and in other ways.
So I was trying to word it to where everyone would basically understand you.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

So @SenorNoob what's your opinion should I wait to open my gas tank and use the gas in it to see if the float works or water right now?

 

[SenorNoob]

Got a gas jug? That's what I'd use. But if it floats in water it SHOULD float in gas...

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I have some 5 gallon buckets.
But my train of thought is why should I put gas in a bucket or a jug or a pan or anything when there's gas in my tank that once I pull the assembly out I could just put it in there.
I know gas prices are down but it still ain't cheap.

Not trying to complain about any of your thoughts just trying to point out my point of view.

Thanks for saying that if it floats water it should float in gas. I'll test it in water and see what we get.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

It's windy today so I figured I better be safe and not turn out sorry.
So I put ratchet straps from my door latch on the door jamb up to my holes in my towards cab bed to hold the bed up against the pole I'm using to prop the bed up.

 

[SenorNoob]

So you've got lifting the bed down to 30 minutes? Nice!

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

It only takes me that long cuz I don't got a lot of good tools.
I'm at my brother's house and if he was home instead of at work I would have used his electric impact and had it lifted a lot sooner.
Right now as for myself my half inch drive ratchet does not ratchet it's stuck in one position so that's how I got to use it.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

P.S. to my last post.
I also had to wait for his friend to show up to actually lift the bed with me that was about 7 minutes or so he was just in my brother's house he lives in my brother's basement.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I edited my post#477. It now reads better.

And in my PS post#478 to that post#477 I also forgot to add that I've had my bed off so many times and I know going in I don't have to worry about rusted bed bolts or or anything like that which all helps a lot.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

My truck is back together and now has a working gas gauge, it's about time.
The bed was up an hour and 12 minutes.

In that time I wasn't just working on my truck I was also posting, Reading Posts.
I had a phone call that was about 10 minutes long. And a few texts that I had to reply to.

Once I pulled the fuel pump assembly out I took the float arm off the sender.
Then I used my little Harbor Freight rotary tool to grind down the bent part that (I'm sure it was Bent by it being squeezed at the factory maybe even while it was hot) of the arm to get the brass washer off.

After that I used one of the drill bits in the rotary tool to drill a hole in two of the corks just in case the float didn't work.

Now to my next question can anybody tell me if my gas tank (Evaporation hoses I'm going to call them.) I don't know what kind of hose they are, but are they supposed to look like the picture below.

Isn't that charcoal thing supposed to hook to the larger one of the hoses? The one hose that's plugged off.

My next project I will have to pull the bed up for is the driver side front leaf spring bracket.

And hopefully I will have the money to buy some shocks as well so I only have to pick the bed up one more time.
My truck needs both the front shocks and the rear shocks replaced it rides down the road ROUGH.
When I hit a good size pothole it feels like the tires are bottoming out hitting the stops that prevent them from going too far up.
I know that can't be good at all.