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

["George Riehl" <longrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, John, that saves me a battle with the hornets trying to see what the 
'56s have for floats.    George


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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] in tank sending unit not worki g update


> My '56 New Yorker has a cork float. Probably the last year.
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> John Cote
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> From: George Riehl <longrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; JettLarry@xxxxxxx
> Sent: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 3:16 pm
> Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] in tank sending unit not worki g update
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> 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.
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> 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 
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>   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).
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>   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.
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>   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.
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>   George Riehl
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>  Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 10:49 AM
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>  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] in tank sending unit not worki g update
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> Here's an off the wall suggestion given to me by an antique parts dealer.
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>   He uses carburator floats from model A Ford as fuel sender floats and 
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>   years. They have an indent in the middle sort of like a figure eight 
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