Changing Fuel Pump 1999 Mercury Cougar remove gas tank?

I need to change the fuel pump on the %26#039;99 mercury cougar. Does the gas tank have to be removed in order to change the fuel pump?|||The pump is in the tank so yes you will have to drop the tank in order to replace the pump.|||Yep.|||if it is throttle body injected then you might. follow the gas line and if it goes down past where the motor mount is then the fuel pump is in the tank