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ANOTHER FUEL SENDER THREAD

hashmaker

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After searching fuel sender issues I see it is common to have inaccurate and non working fuel sending units sold to us. I am on my second unit for the 68 Charger and ran out of gas again when the float stuck. Who has a brand that works well, does anybody know??
 
I haven't found anything that works except the old original ones. .believe me I have restored some originals that were total crap and they still work excellent. New float, new fuel sock, and soak the old sender completely in evaporust. I've had good luck
 
There's certainly a market there for someone to come up with a quality sending unit for our cars for sure.
I'm constantly surprised nobody is doing one.
 
There's certainly a market there for someone to come up with a quality sending unit for our cars for sure.
I'm constantly surprised nobody is doing one.
Yeah, I keep thinking Tonys Parts will start producing them. He keeps adding to his list of reproduced stuff all the time.
 
After searching fuel sender issues I see it is common to have inaccurate and non working fuel sending units sold to us. I am on my second unit for the 68 Charger and ran out of gas again when the float stuck. Who has a brand that works well, does anybody know??
I have one out of a 69 Bee that needs to be rebuilt if your interested.
$20
 
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I went with EFI. I have never used this. I cut it out of the tank before I trashed the tank. It will need to some soaking to get the snap ring out.
$20 + shipping
 
Take the old one (if you have it) and measure the resistance at the "empty" and full positions.
Most of the time, the float is bad and the sending unit itself still works.

The idea is to have the new one match the old one (position of float and electronically), so some bending of the float arm before installation may be required. It is a headache to fix it after it is installed.
 
A little hard to see in this picture. I'm not sure but I believe this old Abody sender failed because a contact came off the sweep arm end or maybe the arm is just bent away from the windings. I don't know how originals were made. Anybody know??..…….


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That little brass arm should have a little round dimple pushed into the end of it where it contacts the windings. I've seen that dimple get a hole rubbed into it so it doesn't contact the windings anymore
 
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