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Hello Everyone,
would anyone out there know where i might be able to find a front fuel tank strap bracket for a 2001 GMC Somoma 4.3 L v6 SLS?Right now it is sitting now 2 months at a garage i have my vehicles worked on and i really would like to have it back in runniing condition again. It was looking fuel and I guess top of tank was bad although i really didnt think that was it as it did nto leak before a fuel pump was replaced at the saem garage a year prior and was fine till about 3 months later. Anyways the tank was taken out and was discoevered this bracket in front of tank and not the straps around the tank but this bracket that has bolt holes drilled in it and it has a long bolt attached to the other end in like an L kinda U shape looking thing. I found it on ebay and another site but it says the part not compatible however the part that suppsoed be on it dont evne look like the one taken off. So i am even wondering if the part says not right part really is the right part but even that part is supposedly discontinued and cant get from GM even. The truck running wise is still good shape as much as i have put into it and i hate to not be able to use it cuz cant find a bracket. I have tried Ebay amazon Gm autoanything and a few others looking for it but only one looks liek the one i need is the one it says wont fit so if anyone might know where i could find this part so i can get this truck back i would appareciate it. Thankyou
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Yes I thought of that and discussed that with a few guys I know. Just kinda worried that on another truck that same part is rusted just as bad but i plan call the salvage yard close to me on monday when they are open. The thing is the part that I am pretty sure i need is the one they say online wont work and the one that they claim is the correct part doesnt look nothing like it nor does it have the long bolt attached to it.
If you live in a state that salts the roads in the winter, then the local parts will probably be just as rusted.
The best bet is to contact used parts dealers in warmer states that don’t use road salts, such as Arizona.
If you look up the part on an online GM parts dealer website, you can get a part number, which will at least make the search a little easier.
This way, even if a website doesn’t specifically list your truck as one that it fits—if the GM part number matches, it will fit.
You can also then email or call some used parts dealers and they should know what you need.Yes i Know. The only chance I would have on a possible local part is to find one that was wrecked early in its life and has been at a junk yard with hardly any use on these winter salted roads. That is the thing the part number off the part that was taken off does not match the truck at all. I have found several with a differnt part number then what is on it. That is the issue i have actually dealt with this truck down to its rotors for some reason. One Mechanic buddy of mine said he swore that when they put mine together they used whatever parts was laying there and made them work but isnt the ones they listed. Even the gas cap wasnt for the same truck i had get one and keep part number to match it over years. Sad thing is i have put way too much money in past 2 yrs and what was done is things that i really would like to keep it going for at least 5 more years but am thinking of sending it to the scrap yard but i got too much in several parts in it so i hate to see all that money just in past 2 years wasted that fast
Do you know anyone who is good at metal fabrication? I can’t imagine that a bracket of this sort is too complicated.
Well the guy that owns the shop the truck is still currently at does and has welding things. There is even those welder fabricators that are doing gas oil stuff around here that live on a rv site just down road from me that i have delivered pizza too that is one of my jobs i have and thought of talking to him but i know they work long hours and doubt he would have time or wanna do that. I even thought from the looks of this part why cant a couple pieces of rebar be bent and weld a piece with holes in it for bolts or even use the old one as a pattern of some sort. See i wanted the bed off anyways cuz it is just as bad rusted so my plan was if he would loosen that as it was already off a year or so prior when i originally fixed the fuel pump so it isnt like it should have bene hard to remove the 4 bolts and remove that i wouldnt think but i was watning to put a wood bed on it if he was gonna put a new gast tank in it but now im not sure i wanna go thru that and the cost after not having it for 3 months now
http://www.lmctruck.com/features/cst/cst341.htm
have a lookThank you. LMCTruck.com is actually the site i was trying to find. My neighbor and buddy next door to me and i Have used this site and forgot the name for it and both couldnt think of it but seem both knw what we was thinking at same time lol. hate that… but anyways after searching i came across the part on LMCtruck and ordered it monday night and i havent read the email yet on but i got a shipping confirmation for it and i think it will be here in net few days if not sooner.
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