You're right there bro, but this Blazer is my only form of transportation. I hated getting raped, but I needed it fixed soon as possible.

 

It looks like a fairly reasonable bill and it was probably back on the road for you fairly quickly, so probably a good decision.

 

The straps are hard to break on these things especially if they are stock, I am in the same boat, my tank leaks( have a new tank) from the top and bottom and the straps that I ordered many times over from different companies always end up being for the S-10 not the T-10, salvage your stock straps if you can.

 

I didn't replace the straps...they managed to get the bolts off.

 

did they use wd-40 or beak loose maybe they just used air tools that usually works all the time lol

 

By using a bit of patience and a lot of penetrating lube, I'm sure things came apart pretty good. Air tools on rusted bolts are sometimes good, sometimes bad. There is a much higher likelyhood of rounding off a nut with air tools, especially on nuts/bolts that have been riddled with rust, decreasing their effective flat to flat width.

Glad you were able to get everything apart.

 

I am glad you got it done.

On my '87 I had the same trouble. All my strap bolts were rusted in place. PB Blaster and impact tools didn't do much. Flame was out of the question. That left me with the old fashioned method, leverage.

I placed a closed end wrench on the nut and spun the bolt so the wrench seated against the gas tank. Then i added enough extensions to get my rachet down far enough so that I could get a 3' long piece of pipe on the handle of the rachet. Then its just a matter of muscle. If your a 90 pound weekling, you need a longer piece of pipe. Longer the handle, the more torque, more torque the easier it is to break the bolts free, or twist them in half. I ended up twisting severalbolts in half. No big deal, I swung by my local hardware store and picked up some new grade 8 stuff.