I know the '98 steel tank has a baffle, because I had to fight that mf'ing pickup into the vertical hole in the tank. A vendor has told me that all F-body tanks are baffled, so I picked up a used plastic tank from a local parts place. I don't have the photo of the tank PN in front of me, but taking the pump out, I don't see any baffles. Are the 99-02 tanks wide open, and the only anti-starve mechanism simply the pump-in-bucket design?

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