Re: [Chrysler300] in tank sending unit not worki g update

["George Riehl" <longrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I remember rightly, while working and changing the fuek tank on my '55 C300 and installing an excellent one from a '55 Windsor, the sending unit had a 90 deg. bend at the end of the arm/rod.
That 90 deg. end went thru the center, legthways, of the cork float. There was a "hat" type retiner on the end of the rod that held the cork float in place.
  As many of the members responding to the question, I wonder how anyone can apply a brass float to the the '55 arm as I wonder as to how many have actually seen a '55 sending unit. I guess it could be done with great effort and hope that during the proceedure, the arm does not break. I would maybe go to some store like Pier 1 to find a chunk of decoration cork. (Or saving some cork stoppers that come out of your favorite table wine and glue them togeather).
  I do remember years ago ('57-'58), the sending unit in my '55 Imperial went bad. The cork float was soggy. There was no replacement float. I had to buy the complete sending unit for around $8.00 or so at the dealer. I do remember that the new cork float was "raw". The old cork had, what looked like, a laquer coating. Guess that was from the gasoline. The '55 C300 cork float looked like it had a "coating" on it also, plus smelled very, very bad. 
  I'm not completely sure, but I think that 1956 may have been the last year of the cork float. Sometime, I'll have to take a look at the '56 300B and the '56 N.Yer. in the back field to see what they have. I know my '57 300C and other 300s have brass floats along with my other cars into the late '70s.
   George Riehl    



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: JettLarry@xxxxxxx 
  To: arshog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 10:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] in tank sending unit not worki g update


  Here's an off the wall suggestion given to me by an antique parts dealer. 
  He uses carburator floats from model A Ford as fuel sender floats and has for 
  years. They have an indent in the middle sort of like a figure eight that 
  the float wire can wrap around. No body will ever know that there is a Ford in 
  your tank.

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