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Re: TR6 Fuel Sender float

To: "Worthy, John" <John.Worthy@team.telstra.com>
Subject: Re: TR6 Fuel Sender float
From: Douglas Frank <frank@zk3.dec.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 13:36:10 -0500
Cc: "'triumphs@autox.team.net'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
References: <675FFC860E29D31187BB0008C75B918902AF8877@ntmsg0081.corpmail .telstra.com.au>
"Worthy, John" wrote:
> 
> Listers
> 
> Can someone provide me with the best method of locating the hole
> and repairing the float?

That was me, who started the thread you're remembering.

Finding the leak is easy, if indeed it is leaking. (!)  Just heat
a pot of water almost to boiling, and dunk the float under. 
Heated air expands, and a stream of bubbles will flow out the
pinhole.  That said, there may not be a leak.  My float was 1/4
full of gas and did not leak.  I believe the gas got in there by
diffusing through the plastic as a vapor in the summer, and
condensing in the winter.  After 28 years of that, a few
thimblesfull had accumulated.

So, I didn't have a chance to try any of the repairs suggested by
listers.  The best-sounding advice was to melt a bit of scrap
from a plastic bottle over the leak, with a soldering iron. 
Supposedly, the best plastic to use would be from a discarded
bottle of windshield washer fluid.

Me, I just bought a new float.  Your local Jaguar dealer will
have a pop-on replacement.
--
Douglas Frank Compaq Computer Corp.   Mammon, n.
ZKO           110 Spit Brook Rd.       The god of the world's
603-884-0501  Nashua, NH USA 03062     leading religion.

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