hey thanks for the exo ideas might come in some good use my bender should be here in 3 weeks and i already have to steel so just wait for the bender and about the raised gas tank i dont have any but i will take some the only thing i really did was i cut the mount off the frame and used the mounting plate that is between the tank and the frame mount bolted it to the tank then jacked the tank up to where it will clear the bed with a 2 inch body lift then i welded it in one corner and made reinforcements for the mount then on the front of the tank i placed it on top of the crossmember instead of under and took like 3/4 nuts and placed then there as spacers and drilled the welded nuts out and ran 1/4 bolts though and thats about it for that not that hard to do but i will try to get some pictures of everything i did