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I have that feeling I'll be doing the same thing soon as I just started driving the truck. I was thinking of replacing the plug with an aviation quick drain if they are the same size. Some are pretty much flush-mount.
http://www.skygeek.com/qudrva.html
In airplanes they are placed in the lowest part of the fuel tank and fuel system to check for and/or remove impurities.
I used aircraft fuel tank epoxy to seal 3 pencil lead size holes in my tank, so far so good.
If you aren't going rock climbing, you may want a drain. I put a ball valve on mine so the tank can be drained easily. It's still higher then the axels however my truck will not be used off road in any way.
I just drained and dropped my tank this week. It's at the radiator shop right now to get acid boiled and lined inside and out. Rather costly about $250.00 but tanks are not easy to come by. The tank was in very goog shape when I dropped it and I needed to anyways because my sending unit ground wire was broke and the fuel guage didn't register. My plug came right out with a 6 point box wrench.Powdered rust in tank but know debris at all. Lucky for me. Good luck. Militarypotts.
sorry for a couple of spelling error's. I'm on heavy doses of TAMAFLU because I was diagnosed yesterday with H1N1! I'll try to do better next post. Thanks
Hey amigo if you have a rusted plug drain try coca cola the phosphoric acid will penetrate the threads and eat the rust...THEN us PB blaster and a wrench with a cheater bar ive loosened some pretty impossible bolts that way good luck dude. soak a shop rag in fresh coca cola and find a way(duck tape) or Ive even filled the gas tank part with with coca cola and then drained it out to remove rust.