fuel gauge or float PROBLEMS
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fuel gauge or float PROBLEMS
I have a 79 CC 4x4 the rear tank when empty reads an 1/8 of a tank, the front tank when empty marks just over the 1/4 almost 3/8s of a tank. Any suggestions on the fix for the problem.
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The fuel sender float is made of two pieces of copper soldered together.
Solder breaks done, gas seeps in, float slowly settles to the bottom of the tank.
The same float fits all cars/trucks: 1957/79.
COAZ9202B .. Fuel Sender Float / Still available from Ford.
MSRP: $7.41 // FTEpartsguy,com price: $5.34
Solder breaks done, gas seeps in, float slowly settles to the bottom of the tank.
The same float fits all cars/trucks: 1957/79.
COAZ9202B .. Fuel Sender Float / Still available from Ford.
MSRP: $7.41 // FTEpartsguy,com price: $5.34
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About 10 yrs. ago I decided I was tired of replacing fuel gauge floats, and at the suggestion of an old mechanic, I replaced mine with a cork stopper. Whittled one down until it had the approximate deminsions of the float, and stuck the float rod through it. Knock wood, but it's still working fine. Only experienced this problem on the side tank. Got the cork at Home Depot.
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Neither one of the floats in my '75's tanks were metal, they were both the
black-foam-like-material like what's in the 2100 carburetor.
The rear/main tank's screen was all to pieces and sloshing around in the tank
tho. :) Removed what was left of it and installed a 4" piece of "fuel injection
hose". The end of it is touching the bottom down in that square low spot .
No screen. Heck, it didn't have a screen before and had a hand full of screen
pieces to boot and ran fine, so I... "straight lined it". Did both tanks that way.
Know what?
It effectively increased the fuel capacity. :)
See it? ;)
Also...
Bent the float rod down so the float would not quite touch the bottom of the
tank (and rub through the protective coating) so my fuel gauge doesn't mean
much when the tank is full, but really does mean it when it's getting "empty".
I don't take anything apart and put it back together without modifying it
somehow. I'm just weird that way. :/
Alvin in AZ
ps- My electric fuel pump has a screen in it...
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/bendix6volt.jpg
black-foam-like-material like what's in the 2100 carburetor.
The rear/main tank's screen was all to pieces and sloshing around in the tank
tho. :) Removed what was left of it and installed a 4" piece of "fuel injection
hose". The end of it is touching the bottom down in that square low spot .
No screen. Heck, it didn't have a screen before and had a hand full of screen
pieces to boot and ran fine, so I... "straight lined it". Did both tanks that way.
Know what?
It effectively increased the fuel capacity. :)
See it? ;)
Also...
Bent the float rod down so the float would not quite touch the bottom of the
tank (and rub through the protective coating) so my fuel gauge doesn't mean
much when the tank is full, but really does mean it when it's getting "empty".
I don't take anything apart and put it back together without modifying it
somehow. I'm just weird that way. :/
Alvin in AZ
ps- My electric fuel pump has a screen in it...
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/bendix6volt.jpg
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I bought mine from Advanced auto and when it's full the needle is about 1/2" past the "F" mark. When it reads "E" I still have about a half tank????
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