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

[Al Fuller]

Thanks Steve.

 

Al Fuller

al at bighealey dot org

'65 BJ-8

'85 Rx-7

 

From: Stephen Hutchings [mailto:s.hutchings at rogers.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 6:09 PM
To: Al Fuller <al at bighealey.org>; healeys at autox.team.net
Cc: 'Tom Mitchell' <drtommitch at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BJ-8 fuel sending unit - changed?

 

Sorry, I didn't address your original question.

The unit seems to be oriented like the original. Terminal forward.

 

Stephen

 

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From: Al Fuller <al at bighealey.org <mailto:al at bighealey.org> >
To: healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>  
Cc: 'Tom Mitchell' <drtommitch at gmail.com <mailto:drtommitch at gmail.com> >
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 4:40 PM
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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