Tank Strap

[btfarm]

Those of you in the northern rust belt states might want to keep an eye on your tank straps. I found the rear one broken today. Glad I didn't drop the tank on the trip to San Antonio and back 2 weeks ago.

 

[Turbine Doc]

A couple of months ago I put a new set of straps on my 90 GMC C1500 gasser truck, 26 gal, short bed step side; NAPA had them in stock & on the shelf..... go figure.... probably last set on MS Coast about $35 not too hateful.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Last summer I could hear this dragging noise going down the road in my work van. Sound increased as vehicle speed increased I finally popped into neutral and killed the engine and noise was still there. Got somewhere I could maybe work on it and discovered it was one of my tank straps. I was amazed at how loud it was, probably the big echo chamber that is the van.

 

[treegump]

I've noticed my 91's straps are looking shady, but I've been putting it off, haha.

 

[btfarm]

Considering 354,000 miles and 15 Illinois winters, I can't complain. Only 30 bucks a pair.

 

[Rockabillyrat]

I walked out of HD the other month and the tank for my beater S10 was laying flat on the parking lot lol. So I ratchet strapped it back up and drove it until I retired the truck for farm use. Ohio winters naturally deleted 5 out of 6 body mounts. So I figured I should stop driving it.

 

[BIGR]

Considering 354,000 miles and 15 Illinois winters, I can't complain. Only 30 bucks a pair.

You got me curious about my tank straps, I checked them they look very good, of course my truck has not seen those Northern winters, but its seen a few southern winter episodes, I kept it out of the salt for a long time, its pretty good for a 2006 model with low 90's on the speedo.

 

[BIGR]

I walked out of HD the other month and the tank for my beater S10 was laying flat on the parking lot lol. So I ratchet strapped it back up and drove it until I retired the truck for farm use. Ohio winters naturally deleted 5 out of 6 body mounts. So I figured I should stop driving it.

Gotta check my 2002 beater S-10, I glanced at it from the side, but its got some shields under the tank, its going to take a better examination of it, other words guess i am going under it to check....

 

[Will L.]

Yeah.... that sux. One of the advantages of where I am- If I strip something down to bare metal and store it outside, it takes 2 years to get enough rust on it that requires more than wiping it away with my bare hand.

 

[MrMarty51]

Yeah.... that sux. One of the advantages of where I am- If I strip something down to bare metal and store it outside, it takes 2 years to get enough rust on it that requires more than wiping it away with my bare hand.

YUP

 

[Husker6.5]

When I dropped the tank on my daughter's 02 Dakota to replace the fuel pump 3 years ago, I not only replaced the mounting studs, speed nuts and strap nuts that mount the tank, I wire brushed the straps (they had pretty good surface rust on them) and then shot both sides of the straps with zinc galvanizing paint before reinstalling the tank.