Sometimes the low-tech solution is the right one.
I took the fule sender out of the Spitfire's tank the other day. My
mirror wouldn't fit into the hole but from what I could see and from
poking around inside with a wire I concluded there was nothing loose
in the tank. Can't say I like sticking my face into an open tank of
highly combustible fluid, but I did wait for a damp, overcast day to
do this so as to avoid ESD that might send me to kingdom-come. I
observed that the float has a bit of gas in it, which explains why
the guage has been reading low. I also observed that a rubber
grommet/seal-like loop thingy was dangling loose from the arm. There
appeared to be nothing for it to seal. So I guessed that it was a
bumper-stop to prevent the float from banging, and that it should
have been stretched around the center of the float. So I moved it
there, then later looked it up in a catalogue to find pictures which
show the float with a collar around the center. Aha!
Today's drive to work had no clunking!
Of course, the guage didn't work at all today. Maybe when I put the
sender back in I got it stuck on the pickup tube. Or maybe the
internals decided to break. I believe it is wired correctly, but
(though I don't have a diagram in front of me just now) I don't think
it should make any difference.
So, is there any collective experience to indicate that the sender
could just go bad? I could drain and seal the float, but if the non-
functional guage is not my re-assembly error then perhaps I should
just order a new sender.
[All missppellinnggs in this note are intentional. I just can't
tpye.]
Jim Muller
jimmuller@rcn.com
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