Ugh. Super irritated. I just did my first fill up after the "temporary fix" and it sprayed gas all over...as if I didn't go through the hassle (the thing was damn near glued on) to change out the filler hose at all. Sigh. I can't win with this machine.
Bottom Line. In case you have read through the thread this far and are on the fence my opinion is spend your time learning how to drop the tank
Definitely just drop the tank. It was one of the first things I did to mine and I knew very little about Jeep repairs at the time. My pointers are in post #246 of this thread for anyone interested. Just run the gas tank as close to "E" as possible.