Mustang5l5's Progress Thread - Archived Progress thread '08-'20.

[General karthief]

Cheaper than a new tank

 

[RaggedGT]

If you buy a new tank,go with spectra, and coat it with por-15 or Top Kote tank coating

 

[95BlueStallion]

Youve been busy today! I feel like senders are cheap enough to replace while you are there, but I do know others get enjoyment out of fixing original parts. Either way, good work. I will be doing this same thing very soon, but already included a new ring and sender in my order. Hoped to plan ahead for the inevitable, even though my fuel gauge seems to work fine as well.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Youve been busy today! I feel like senders are cheap enough to replace while you are there, but I do know others get enjoyment out of fixing original parts. Either way, good work. I will be doing this same thing very soon, but already included a new ring and sender in my order. Hoped to plan ahead for the inevitable, even though my fuel gauge seems to work fine as well.

I'd like to do a new sender, but really it comes down to original 30 year old part vs made-in-china stuff.

I'm kinda also thinking the devil I know is better than the one you don't. I don't really run the tank down below 1/2 tank these days, so is 4 gallons when needle shoes empty really a problem?

I'd hate to drop tank for Chinese sender issues down the road.


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I soaked more pb blaster on the ring today and will remove it tonight. We'll see how mangled it gets. New ring mandatory. New tank? Starting to lean that way

 

[95BlueStallion]

I tell ya what, youre giving me things to look out for while Im there, and have a valid point about the sender. Now Im itching to get to mine and how everything looks. Thanks for posting so many details about your work.

 

[Chuckman]

That 4 gallons may just be the reserve capacity of the tank, any engineer with some common sense would set it up so that the driver (lacking common sense) would have enough range to get to a gas station AFTER the needle hits E.

 

[Fordfreak93]

+1 on the Spectra tank. I bought a Glenn's Performance Sleeper tank and they added on their fittings to a Spectra tank. Nice stuff! I might have a spare OEM sender if you want to mess with it.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I'm just going to go with new tank.

$80 for Spectra tank, $50 for the new padding, $50 for new fuel tank pickup, and I aready have the Walbro 190lph pump. Got new filler neck seal already. Just going to reuse the original sender and stick with it.

 

[a91what]

It's amazing that a fuel tank is cheaper than a throttle body. Good choice going all new chit.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Got home and pulled the pump out. Was able to left a corner and snip the ring and get it all out.

Original fuel pump with mfg date of Feb-1987. Amazingly if the baffle is the cause of my fuel starvation issues, then this pump is still good to go. Obviously I'm swapping it out but it did go 30 years, 5 months.

Pretty clean inside the seal

Looks like my ground wire shorted to the pickup

 

[Mustang5L5]

Fuel tank ordered. $92 shipped from rock auto with the standard 5% discount.


Working the pickup a tad. Making progress cleaning it up. What do you think? Put a little more elbow grease into it and then make a decision?

 

[Mustang5L5]

As for the sender,

Found from a few sources that spec is ~22ohms full, and ~145ohms empty.

So I tested mine.

Full range up = 16 ohms
Full range down= 170 ohms.

So explains why my Guage reads empty when I still have a little gas left.

 

[General karthief]

I didn't like those wires or the crusty scale on the top and hose connections, I'd replace it.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Ordered these too. Feel like these should be less than $50....we'll $47 after discount

 

[Davedacarpainter]

You're going to have so much fun putting that new tank back in Mike.

I would've replaced it all myself too.

 

[Mustang5L5]

And here I thought this was going to just be a pump swap.

Now I'm buying new straps and grommets and pickup tubes....

 

[Davedacarpainter]

And here I thought this was going to just be a pump swap.

Now I'm buying new straps and grommets and pickup tubes....

That's all I was going to do to my blue car Mike, and look where I am now

 

[General karthief]

That car started out needing a tune up, tires and a battery.
Oh, and a eviction notice for the rodents

 

[Mustang5L5]

Good as new. Just wish I put it on the saw horses first and not the grass

Old tank committed to scrap heap. Filled with water. Will let sit a few days drain it and toss behind the shed til I can make a scrap yard run

 

[Mustang5L5]

Haven't decided what to do with these. I've seen reviews saying the aftermarkets fit kinda shady...

These need a lot of elbow grease before repaint. Was original color black or gray?