I've had my gas tank out many..... many..... many times. Are you sure it isn't just that the straps are a bit distorted and you just need to wrestle them back in place? That always happens to me, since they tend to get in the way of what I'm doing once the tank is out so i'm shoving them all over the place while that's going on and they get bent. But once i get them on the studs and start tightening the nuts they fall right in line.
Don't listen to me though. I stripped out BOTH nuts last time I put mine back in.
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