How to Install a Car Fuel Tank Brace

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Part of the video series: How to Replace a Car Trunk

Summary: Install a car fuel tank brace, or bracket, which means the floor support needs to be modified to fit the modified trunk floor; learn how in this free auto-repair video.

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By Doug Jenkins
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Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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"Hi I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hotrods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now Alex is going to take a brand new piece and cut it up. Remember this repair started because the fuel tank in this car was junk. We had to replace the fuel tank when we pulled the tank out. The support in the trunk floor that held the tank in place came all apart because it was so badly rusted. So we had to replace those supports. This is the new support but we had to modify the new trunk floor in order to get it to fit in the car. Turns out that this tank support that we have here fits the original contour so we can't buy a trunk floor to fit the car and you can't buy a tank support to fit the modified shape. You have to get the floor in so Alex is going to cut the new floor support apart and make it fit the modified trunk floor. This is all the parts for you. Any work you do on your own, you're going to have to do the same thing."