<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Al,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Leaving aside New and old senders, If you go back to first principles, the sender float should sit down in the recessed area of the tank when the tank is empty. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">That's why there is a recessed area in the tank. Because when the centre height line of the float is at the same level of the bottom of the tank, (I.e. The float is sitting fully in the recess) then you get a reasonably accurate empty reading. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Forget the orientation of the screw terminal. It has no bearing on the orientation or location of the sender float. I've seen original senders exactly as you described. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The second issue is the wire arm is bent like an elbow. If it isn't bent on the correct angle, again, the float won't sit neatly in the recessed area. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">So I'd fit the sender unit so that the float is aimed to sit in the recess, and then trial and error fiddle with the bend in the wire to make it sit cleanly at the bottom of the recess. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Then you should have an empty reading. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I'm sure there are "electric" methods of adjustment, but you have to get the "mechanical" stuff correct first. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Best</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Chris </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br><br></div><div><br>On 16 Apr. 2017, at 4:59 am, Al Fuller <<a href="mailto:al@bighealey.org">al@bighealey.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The fuel sender is fitted with the screw terminal toward the back of the <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">car, placing the float forward to the deepest and closest point to the pick <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">up tube.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Al Fuller</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">al at bighealey dot org</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">'65 BJ-8</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">'85 Rx-7</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><sending-unit1.jpg></div></blockquote></body></html>