[Healeys] Great Healey folks

[John Sims]

This is the float that is noted on the "Local Parts" page of my site. I
bought one at the suggestion of another lister and am very happy with it. I
remember that when I bought mine from the local Ford dealer, he mentioned
that I was probably going to use it for an old car. With respect to bending
the tip of the wire that holds it as some have suggested, I found that
practicing on an old failed sender unit, I could not do it properly without
warping the wire totally out of shape so this Ford float fits the ticket.

Now, I am sure that someone will ask why I have an old failed sender unit.
Beats the heck out of me. Winter project is to go through all of my
cabinets, etc. in the garage and separate the broken junk from the good
stuff.

John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ
 
http://www.healey6.com


-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Bert Van Brande
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:08 PM
To: Oudesluys; edic
Cc: Healeys
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Great Healey folks

This issue seems not be limited to Healeys.  I am looking at restoring my
100 BN2 sender that has a float leaking like a sieve among other problems. I
sourced an early bugeye sender for parts but I did came across the
following:

http://www.google.com/search?q=FORD+Sending+Unit+Fuel+Tank+Brass+Float
(you can substitute FORD with Chevy/Chevrolet,...)

>From one of the descriptions these floats are about 2 inches wide and an
inch and a quarter across.  For sale between $5-12.  Again I have no
experience with this I just thought it might be useful to someone.  For this
price it might be worth checking out.

Bert