[Healeys] BJ-8 fuel sending unit - changed?

[BJ8Healeys]

Every sending unit for a BJ8 I've ever seen has the terminal and float arm
on the same side like your photo.  The terminal goes toward the FRONT of the
car.

 

Steve Byers

HBJ8L/36666

BJ8 Registry

AHCA Delegate at Large

Havelock, NC  

 

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Al Fuller
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 3:00 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Cc: 'Tom Mitchell'
Subject: [Healeys] BJ-8 fuel sending unit - changed?

 

All:  does anyone know if the fuel tank sending unit for a BJ-8 that is
being sold today has changed from what was original?

 

After being stranded on the road having run out of gas while the gauge read
¼ full, I purchased a new unit from Moss Motors.  After installing the unit,
it didn’t seem to correspond with what I thought was in the tank.  I pumped
the tank out, and it still reads ¼ full!

 

Thinking I had maybe installed it in the wrong orientation, I found the
following quote from Rich Chrysler.  Being from Rich, I am assuming it is
correct:

 

The fuel sender is fitted with the screw terminal toward the back of the 

car, placing the float forward to the deepest and closest point to the pick 

up tube.

 

Reading the above, it would follow that the sending unit would have the
terminal at one end and the pick-up arm at the other.  Problem is, this unit
has them both on the same end.  And, yes – I could just turn it around so
that the float is in the front, but that isn’t solving the problem.  It does
read closer to empty, but not completely.

 

This all raises the question:  are these units being made differently now,
or did I get the wrong unit shipped to me?  See picture attached for an
example of what I received. 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Al Fuller

al at bighealey dot org

'65 BJ-8

'85 Rx-7

 

 


 
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