Sometimes the low-tech solution is the right one. I took the fule sender out of the Spitfire's tank the other day. My mirror wouldn't fit into the hole but from what I could see and from poking around inside with a wire I concluded there was nothing loose in the tank. Can't say I like sticking my face into an open tank of highly combustible fluid, but I did wait for a damp, overcast day to do this so as to avoid ESD that might send me to kingdom-come. I observed that the float has a bit of gas in it, which explains why the guage has been reading low. I also observed that a rubber grommet/seal-like loop thingy was dangling loose from the arm. There appeared to be nothing for it to seal. So I guessed that it was a bumper-stop to prevent the float from banging, and that it should have been stretched around the center of the float. So I moved it there, then later looked it up in a catalogue to find pictures which show the float with a collar around the center. Aha!
Today's drive to work had no clunking! Of course, the guage didn't work at all today. Maybe when I put the sender back in I got it stuck on the pickup tube. Or maybe the internals decided to break. I believe it is wired correctly, but (though I don't have a diagram in front of me just now) I don't think it should make any difference. So, is there any collective experience to indicate that the sender could just go bad? I could drain and seal the float, but if the non- functional guage is not my re-assembly error then perhaps I should just order a new sender. [All missppellinnggs in this note are intentional. I just can't tpye.] Jim Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.8/1064 - Release Date: 10/11/2007 3:09 PM _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires
