Barry,
I too tried to repair my float. After drilling a small hole, I used a
soldering iron to MELT the hole closed. After carefully positioning it with
the former hole on the top, I reinstalled the sender.
Six months later I found that the float was filling with fuel again, so I
replaced the float only. They ARE available, I got mine for about $7 plus
shipping from r.d. enterprises, in Quakertown, PA. http://www.rdent.com
As a further note, at a Club garage day 3 weeks ago we needed a float for
someone's Spit, and the garage had them in stock! So maybe you can find
one locally.
PS, none of my books shows a damper o-ring. When mine clangs it is because
I have bent the rod maneuvering the sender back into the tank...
Cheers,
Atwell Haines
'79 Spitfire
At 07:54 AM 5/5/99 -0700, Barry Schwartz wrote:
>
>Last night I swapped out the old Fuel tank with the new modified one for
>the soon to be installed fuel injection (new return line fitting, 3/8 dia
>lines etc). Upon taking the sender out, I noticed the float about a third
>full of fuel. Luckily I had an old, non functioning unit out of the GT6
>with a good float on it that I could use. It uses the same float, (or very
>nearly identical) so I switched them. The only problem was that the little
>rubber (damper o-ring) which encircles the float and prevents it from
>banging the top and bottom of the tank was really too loose to use on the
>new float. I didn't feel comfortable using it thinking that it may fall
>off. It would just slide loosely on the new float so there may be a slight
>difference in floats. I heard it banging the top of the tank this morning
>:-). . .Anyway, Is there any way to remove the fuel from the old float? I
>was thinking of boiling the float, hopefully causing the old fuel to
>vaporize and thereby also showing me where the leak is and allowing me to
>repair it. The only other way I could see to evacuate the old fuel out
>would be to drill a small hole, drain, epoxy it closed, then find out where
>the original leak is and then seal that up also. I would presume that the
>leak would be at the weld seam but am not sure where as it looks to be fine
>- unfortunately, you can't buy just the float. I may just make a brass one
>and be done with it! It wouldn't be that hard -
>
>Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
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