Reply To: Petrol tank sender

[Tim WalkerParticipant]

Hello  all

The float for the sender is smaller than the cork one, but I’ve put it on and it works a treat. Here’s how I did it.

Remove the three screws to fit the sender to the body of the car. The float is to the right of the sender, but should come out with a bit of a wiggle. I took the three wires out first, mine (1953) were half round terminals so you only have to undo the nuts a turn.

Don’t forget to disconnect the battery!

Take the new sender and cut the wire about 80% of the way up the return wire- you should have the sender, a 90 deg. bend, and about 10 cm of wire. Now remove the cork from the float on the old sender, and you will find that the wire has got two bends in it such that the new sender won’t go on.

So, remove the whole wire (just) including the bend, so that you’ve got the old sender, and the new sender plus 10cm of wire. Take off the new float- there is a star washer on it- and then solder the new and old pieces together. Replace the  float, and the washer, and, as they say in the Haynes manual, refit!

It’s £4.50, and it works. Postage from China ostensibly takes five weeks, but mine arrived a week after I ordered it.

I would have had photos, but despite the technology, I can’t get it to sync.