HOW TO REMOVE A FUEL TANK SENDER FROM A JEEP CHEROKEE

Video Transcript

What's up, guys. It's Matt with the YouTube channel BleepinJeep. Today we're going to do a DIY and Drive tutorial here at Pull-A-Part Used Auto Parts. Let's do it. So what we're going to pull today is the fuel sending unit. The sending unit is what pumps the gas up towards the engine compartment. So we've got a pump, and usually there's a gauge in there that tells you how much fuel you have. So where is that located? It's inside the fuel tank, so first thing that we need to do is drop the fuel tank.

So in case you were wondering, no, there is no fuel in the fuel tank. Pull-A-Part has to be very cautious and keep people from blowing themselves up. So the only way to get the fuel out is to punch holes in the bottom of the fuel tank, so those are non-reusable. So if you need to drop this down, what you need to do is get a wrench and un-tighten this all the way down. And that can take forever. So if you don't need to reuse these, then let's just cut them off.

So before we drop that down completely, we need to take anything that's attached to the gas tank off like the electrical lines and the fuel lines. So we try to keep as much of this intact as possible because somebody else might want this. So on here there's a little clip. Push it sideways, and then you pull. There you go. Let's look at this fuel line. Looks like the clip you pinch and pull. A little bit of gas in there, watch out. And this just disconnects right here. There we go. Now let's see if we can get it down. All right, I could probably get the sending unit from here, but let's pull it out so you can see what I'm doing. The only thing that's connected now is right up here where the filler lines are, so if we get a screwdriver in there, we can disconnect those hose clamps and pull it off of the filler lines.

All right, I've got the whole tank out, and this is the fuel sending unit now. On earlier Cherokees it would have been on the side a little more, but they're very similar. On this one it's like a screw, so this is screwed on. There's a retaining ring that's screwed on that holds that in there. So what you need is just a flat bladed screwdriver as big as you can get and a hammer. Righty tighty, lefty loosey. We're going to try to knock this thing off.

Now once you go around a few times like that and loosen up, you can go ahead and pull this ring off. And now we just have to pull this out of there. And that is your fuel sending unit. So there's a pump in there, and here's the float that tells you how much gas you've got in there. Now keep in mind on these later model Cherokees there is not a fuel filter, so this is supposed to last the lifetime of the pump the filter that's in this one. All right, thanks for watching, guys. Again, this is Matt with the YouTube channel BleepinJeep. We'll see you next time.