[DeTomaso] gas tank float switch

[richard bosch]

               Is this bend downward toward the bottom of the tank a
smallish or medium size bend----just to give me the basic range of this
tweak?
Do small bends.Maybe an inch difference at the float.It takes very little bending to make a difference.Use both hands on the arm.One to hold it and the other hand more towards the float to bend,so you do not put any force on the sender itself like Bill mentioned.
--- On Tue, 4/3/12, Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> wrote:

From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] gas tank float switch
To: "'richard bosch'" <theemonkey at yahoo.com>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:27 PM

Dear Richard,


              Ach du Lieber!  That is the problem that I am having.

             I have a new gas tank sender and pick up modified after
purchase for a larger gas line that was installed and didn't work.  I found
that the float was hitting the side of the tank.  I tweaked it and it had
full range of motion within the tank.    Then, once "fixed" it does "work",
but all the readings are lower than normal.   So, which way do you bend the
float arm to approach a correct reading?


                    Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of richard bosch
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 8:25 PM
To: detomaso at realbig.com; boyd411 at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] gas tank float switch

Boyd,i believe that the other vendors get them from Wilkinson so i doubt
anyone else would be cheaper.For what it is worth i have installed a few of
these new ones and the float arm has needed to be adjusted(bent) to get a
closer to accurate reading.All the ones i have installed had initially read
less fuel than was really in the tank.So adjust it before putting all the
screws and the side window back in.And yes i know the fuel tank is not
square so you need to adjust for that as well.
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