Re: [Chrysler300] Gas tank grounding

[Keith Boonstra <kboonstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your A/C service dealer will have tough-to-disintegrate o-rings.  I 
think  they are silicone.

Keith Boonstra

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Richard Barber wrote:
>  
>
>
> Grounding of the sending unit is tenuous at best without a direct hard 
> wired
> ground connection. On our '55 C-300, the sending unit is accessible via a
> hole in the trunk floor. I removed the sending unit, drilled a small hole
> through the top plate of the sending unit and through part of the base 
> plate
> of the resistor/float mechanism, inserted a small bolt, secured it with a
> nut and lock washer, set in epoxy (for a seal) on the top. The bolt being
> long enough to take a ring wire terminal and another nut and lockwasher.
> Ran a wire from that bolt to a bolt head on the trunk lid latch at the 
> rear
> of the trunk and got a good ground. The sending unit had been rebuilt
> poorly with a replacement resistor and slider, but it works and 
> jiggles all
> the time. Still struggling to find just the right O-ring to establish a
> tank to sending unit seal that will not dissolve from the current
> formulation of Flock Juice in the tank.
>
> BTW, the sending unit is date coded on the bottom 1 55. Sounds about right
> for a March 1955 Baby Brute.
>
> C-300'ly,
> Rich Barber
> Brentwood, CA
> 1955 C-300
>
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> [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:Chrysler300%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Krull
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:12 AM
> To: Chrysler 300 Club Intl
> Cc: Kenneth Krull
> Subject: [Chrysler300] Gas tank grounding
>
>  
> Hello All
> The gas gauge worked last year but not this year. The factory grounding
> strap has one ear broke. I have used a cloths pin on it to make the
> connection the last couple years. This year I decided to ground the 
> tank lip
> to the frame. Now the gauge does work but it reads l/8 full and I believe
> the tank to be over 1/2 full.
> Does the grounding need to go to the nipple coming from the pickup or 
> should
> anyplace on the tank work?
> Ken Krull
> New Paris, In.
>
> 


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