gas tank sending unit

This thread has been pretty useful in covering some of the failure modes...

Call me an idiot here but my car is 25 miles away right now and I'm trying to remember- do you need to drop the tank to get to the sending unit or can you access it through the trunk?
Not through the trunk but from underneath.... you usually can pull the sender with the tank in the car.
KEEP THE SENDER GASKET RING THAT IS NOW IN THE CAR