Hi, I'm Wade from Thoroughbred Diesel and today we're going to do an installation video on
Longhorn Fab Shop's Universal FASS mount. One of our salesman's truck, Dillon Richard,
this old 759 truck. He's got a FASS fuel system on here, and what we wanted to do today is we
want to do an installation of the Longhorn Fab Shop's Universal FASS mount. And we think this
is probably the perfect truck for this mount, and you can see by the amount of exposure that Dillon
has on the filters on this FASS. So, the Longhorn Fab Shop's Universal FASS mount, this is a really,
really good unit. This a really, really tough unit. What this is going to do for you guys
with FASS and Air Dogs, at the time of this filming just this week they came out, and this
part number is actually going to work for Air Dogs as well. What this is going to do, is this
is actually going to protect your system overall. So if something were to come in contact with this
system, with this FASS system, the way they are positioned, it could very easily be broken off,
broken away from the truck, which could lead to a fuel leak and several other problems.
We hope that you don't have that, but if you guys do a lot of off-reading, farming,
you're out and the truck is actually in an element to where it can pick up sticks or rocks or things
of that nature, and make contact with the FASS, this is definitely going to be one of the upgrades
that you're going to want to go with. So what we want to do now is we're going to go ahead and
take you over to the bench, we're going to show you how this product is packaged from Longhorn,
what comes in the package and talk to you a little bit about that. In the interest of
keeping our video short and easier for you to watch we are not going to show you uninstalling
this FASS fuel system from the truck. We're going to show you the FASS fuel system once
it's off, mounting it to the Longhorn Fab FASS bracket. We're going to show you all of that,
but we're not going to show you removing this. You need to... If you installed your FASS on your
truck, you need to remove your FASS from your truck at this time. Or you can unbolt it from
the slides and let it hang down and mount it to this, however you want to do it. For us,
we're going to go ahead and unbolt the FASS completely. I definitely, definitely suggest
if you're going to take the FASS off the truck completely, pinch off pliers. If you own a pair
of pinch off pliers, you'll need three of them. You'll need one for the supply, the return,
and then the supply to the engine. Go ahead and pinch the hoses off and then unhook the hoses
from the FASS. This is going to save you a lot of leaks, keep you a lot of mess, so definitely
invest in a set of pinch off pliers before you do this. It just gives you the ability to take
your FASS on and off without as much of a mess. So, we're going to go ahead and get started with
taking the FASS off this truck. What we want to do now is we want to show you what comes in the
box with the Longhorn Fab Shop FASS Universal filter mount, the FASS Universal mount. This is
part number 201050, and like I was talking in our opening shot, Longhorn has done modifications to
this kit for this kit to fit on you guys that have Air Dog fuel systems on your truck, so this is
going to fit for FASS and Air Dog systems. We will do an installation video with the Air Dog system,
so you can see it both ways, but today we're installing it for a truck with a FASS on it.
One of the first things that I wanted to show you on this Longhorn product is their boxing,
just because it's really, really good. I know it doesn't matter to a lot of you guys,
but want to show you why this product arrived to your home safely and not dented or broken.
The guys at Longhorn did a really good job on picking the packaging, and actually engineering
how to put together this kit inside of the box to where it would not flop around and
get dented or get hurt or anything like that. So, inside side of the box you have the... I'm
going to show you this. You can see how everything's compartmentalize there and
fits nicely inside of each other. You have this box that's going to have your rails on
it for your mount. Then you have the mount itself that's inside of the box. Got your instructions,
hardware kit, and a nice Longhorn Fab Shop sticker comes with it. All right, enough
about the packaging. Good stuff. I like to nerd out on stuff like that every once in a while.
All right, so let me show you a little bit about the Longhorn Fab mount. I'm going to grab a towel
here and just clean this off real quick too. All right, so this mount you are going to actually
mount the FASS unit itself to this mount. We're going to show you that here in just a second,
we'll get to that, but I also wanted to show you what comes with the kit as well. Longhorn
goes ahead and instead of just sending you this mount, which probably work with 90% of the cases,
they also send you everything you knew need to do a full installation on the FASS or the
Air Dog itself, using the bed corners like the original FASS mount does.
This is a really, really nice feature. Talk to you just a little bit about that. If you've got a
FASS and you roll it over from another truck and you don't want to take your brackets with you,
your brackets are rusted, or whatever the case may be, you don't want to use them,
Longhorn sends you the brackets to do a full installation on this kit, which is a really,
really nice feature I think. If you buy one of these pumps and it's used... Please don't do that,
buy a new one from us. We would appreciate your business. But if you do that, this will allow you
to install it as well too. So, that's another nice feature of that. All this is powder-coated stuff,
this is really, really good. They did a really, really good job with the engineering on this
kit. They do several different... You can see the amount of mounting holes inside of this.
There is not one way that you could come up with in your mind that this kit would not mount. If
you do, you're a genius. It's great. So, look at the number of mounting holes that the mount to the
bracket itself has, several different ways that this can be mounted to the bracket, just endless
number of ways that you could do this as well. Here's the slide that goes on the bed corner,
and then the actual mount or the protector itself has got the Longhorn logo in here. It's really,
really nice stuff. All the bolts for that are included. This does not include the bolts to mount
the actual pump itself and the FASS application to mount the FASS directly to this mount,
but this does come with the bolts that you need to do all of the other mounting products. So really,
really nice product. Comes with instructions on it, but we're going to go ahead and get
started with this installation now. We are ready to install our Longhorn Fab
Shop FASS fuel bracket. Now, going to be a little bit cramped video quarters here,
so first thing that you're going to want to do, if this is a new install for you,
you're going to want to go ahead and remove your forward bed bolt on the Dodge, that's what this
is on, a Dodge. This mount is designed to be installed at the bed mounting points. So went
ahead and removed that on this Dodge. We're going to put this piece on first. You're going to go
ahead and install this and you're going to want to leave it somewhat loose. Actually, you know
what? Let's back up here for just a second. What you want to do is you're going to want to
mock everything up. You're going to want to mock the bed slide up first, and then the mount that
the Longhorn Fab guard goes on. Almost called it a [gar 00:08:15]. You want to mount these
two together, mock all this up with the Longhorn Fab piece on it, mock it all up, and then when you
go back and do this portion of the install, you're going to want to tight... Because it
gives you the ability to tighten it down. They have this recessed for full range of traveling,
and what happens here is when the Longhorn Fab mount is on here, it makes access to these
bolts a little bit tricky. So you want to fab everything up, mock it all up and then go back,
uninstall it, and then re-tighten everything up. I know where I need to be on this truck,
so we're going to go forward with that. So, we're going to put this bracket back on first,
and make sure that I stay out of the shot here. [inaudible 00:09:11] It's a little bit tricky,
one of the themes that you're going to see with this installation is it's a little bit tricky with
some of this that's channeled. Being that some of these mounts are channeled, it's hard to get your
hand where it needs to be. So, you wind up having to get creative, like I just did right there. On
these Dodges, good trick there, on the bottom of this leaf spring perch, there's a hole there where
you can get a extension and a ratchet through here. Like I said, I've already mocked this up,
I know where I need to be here, for this mount I need to be all the way out. This
bolt is always going to be able to be accessed here regardless of what you've got done, so I'm
going to leave that semi loose there to where we can get a little bit of movement out of it.
Now I'm going to go ahead and put my next piece on, all four bolts and washers on this as well.
All right. Now as I was saying there, I've already mocked this up so I know exactly
where this one needs to be. So what I'm going to do now, is we're going to cut right there and
I'm going to go ahead and install these other two bolts. Just give you another advantage of
leaving that like this, the bracket at the bed loose, you can swing this and then that gives
you the ability to get your wrench easier to these bolts to tighten them up. Because again,
the channel iron or these brackets being channeled the way they are, this is really nice to get you
full range of motion on these brackets, but it's aggravating when you're talking about tightening
or accessing them, but really good design. So, now we've got the bracket on and we've
got it secure because again, we mocked this up before, we know where we needed to be.
Now, it's time to put our Longhorn bracket up here. So what we want to do here,
is we want to go ahead and mock this up as well with our pump in there and make sure that we
know everything clears. I know what set of four holes I've got to mount this on here. So again,
I've already checked her out, so I'm going to go ahead and mount my bolts. This is all grade eight
hardware that Longhorn sends for you with this, real good stuff. Okay. Adam grabbed my bolt there,
and I didn't know where my bolt had run off to. All right. So again, I'm going to go ahead and
tighten all these bolts down and we'll cut away so you don't have to watch me fool with nuts and
washers here, but we're going to go ahead, since again, we know where we need to be here. We're
going to go ahead and tighten these down. So now it's time to go ahead and mount our FASS
pump up to this bracket. Now, Adam and I were just sitting here talking about what you could
do if you had more room between the bedside, you could totally put this all together then
shove it up here in one shot. It wouldn't go on this truck like that, but you're talking about
different trucks here. This can be on a Chevy or Ford or Dodge, so if you've got room and there's
no specific way to do it, but if you are close quarters, this is the way I'm going to suggest
for you to do it. This way is to start by mounting the forward bracket, then work your way out.
So we're going to go ahead and we're going to start mounting the FASS and show you here,
the FASS has got several different other mounting holes that you can use along the tower and the
base here. We're going to use this one, this one, this one and this one... Or I'm sorry, this one,
this one, this one and this application so I know where I need to be there. I've mocked it up. So
I'm going to put a bolt through here and a spacer. These are the bolts and spacers that came out of
your old pump for lack of a better word. We're using... We're reinstalling here onto a truck
so we're going to go ahead slick my pump through here. This is where it gets a little tricky.
Now that I've got plenty of threads in there, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go
to my next hole, line that up. Get my spacer in there. This is... All right,
I got two of my bolts in there. What I'm going to go ahead and do now is I'm going to go ahead
and just snug those down to where I don't have extra pressure on those two bolts, and as you saw,
I dropped the third one so I'm going to have to go chase it down. All right. We're going to do
our final tightening here of the mounting system so just slip through that bed bolt and hope you
hit it. Mount where it needs to be here. All right, there is everything tightened up.
All right, this is the FS-1001 filter. You can use this filter on any of them that's got the
one inch... On any of the FASS pumps, save for the signature series, except the signature series. Red
base, blue base, the gray base, whatever. So this is the tall filter, and what we were talking about
with the guy from Longhorn was this kit, this guard, is actually made that it is going to encase
even this FS-1001 filter, the tall filter. Lot of guys like to run this filter. That's totally
one that it's got it guarded, the only thing is on the bottom there it's just a little bit under the
water separator, but as far as this application goes, this was as high up as I was able to get
the FASS pump itself. So, that's it. That's our installation of our Longhorn Fab bracket.
I'm going to let Adam whirl around here, show you some of the details on it. We've got to put
our lines back on and start the truck, but good to go. You can look and see how this is all tucked up
now, and it's got the guard on it as well so you don't have to worry about anything hitting this,
knocking it out of the way. It's protected with this, and it just really looks good and got your
Longhorn logo on there guys. So this concludes our installation of Longhorn Feb's FASS bracket.
It's now made to fit the Air Dog Universal. If you have a question about this installation or
any of our other installations, or any of Longhorns products, please give us a call,
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