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<p>The plastic floats do leak after a while as the steel wire-arm
wears through the plastic at the end of the wire float lever which
usually is very sharp. When fitting a new float file the end of
the lever smooth to prevent it happening again. Nothing to do with
ethanol. The sender unit always fills up with petrol, it is not
fluid tight. Again, no problem. The plastic floats can be found in
many European cars, not only UK cars. You can also use a Champagne
cork.</p>
<p>Kees Oudesluijs</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 29-5-2018 om 17:29 schreef Michael
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1527606631714_5499" dir="ltr">This past
weekend I removed the tank to extract the sending unit on my
Bugeye because of a constant reading of empty on the gauge.
As suspected, the plastic float was filled with gasoline.
Ethanol! While replacing the plastic float for brass and the
cork gaskets for Viton type gaskets, I also swapped out the
sending unit top cover cork gasket with a Viton type using
Hylomar AF to seal things up. The big surprise came when I
found the rheostat cavity full of gasoline. Must have entered
through the hole in the sending unit body for the float
lever. Anyone have experience with this? Should I be
concerned? I remember the original sending unit I removed
form the Bugeye tank was full of a white powdery residue
around the rheostat like it had also been filled with
gasoline. Anyone have experience with this?</div>
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