Re:Fuel Tank options

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>From: jmbrodsky@domain.elided
>Subject: Re[2]: Fuel tank opinions...
>
>Is it worth trying to bend the sender arm to give a different 
>reading, IE more than 5/8 scale when full?  Or should I try to 
>find another one?  I just got off the phone with the regional 
>Dodge parts warehouse, and they have no listing for the sender, 
>nor do they show any on the shelf for any other parts stop in the 
>country.  Thanks IH.  I didn't think a used one was reliable from 
>a junk yard.  Mine looks ok, just either a resistor net or a bend 
>in the arm to fix the reading.  I'm planning on brazing the 
>offending spot, I'll be done by around 9pm MST, then I'll let 
>everyone know how it turned out.
>
>
>     -Joel Brodsky
Joel, 
For what it's worth, when I bought an external gauge from a racing supply 
house locally, they had senders in a number of ohm ranges including the 
one necessary if I had kept the factory gauge. They were big SW and 
Autoguage sellers.
John

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