If you buy a new tank,go with spectra, and coat it with por-15 or Top Kote tank coating
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
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.
+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.
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.
$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.
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
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
And here I thought this was going to just be a pump swap.
Now I'm buying new straps and grommets and pickup tubes....
Now I'm buying new straps and grommets and pickup tubes....
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
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
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