I had your problem exactly with my old unit.But when I bench tested the gauge
with a new sender, it read properly.So my problem was the old sender.Maybe your
gauge needs calibrating?Also try adding a ground wire to the sender body.
Stephen, BJ8
From: Al Fuller <al at bighealey.org>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Cc: 'Tom Mitchell' <drtommitch at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 4:40 PM
Subject: [Healeys] BJ-8 fuel sending unit - changed?
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anyone know if the fuel tank sending unit for a BJ-8 that is being sold today
has changed from what was original? ?After being stranded on the road having
run out of gas while the gauge read ? full, I purchased a new unit from Moss
Motors.? After installing the unit, it didn?t seem to correspond with what I
thought was in the tank.? I pumped the tank out, and it still reads ? full!
?Thinking I had maybe installed it in the wrong orientation, I found the
following quote from Rich Chrysler.? Being from Rich, I am assuming it is
correct: ?The fuel sender is fitted with the screw terminal toward the back of
the car, placing the float forward to the deepest and closest point to the pick
up tube. ?Reading the above, it would follow that the sending unit would have
the terminal at one end and the pick-up arm at the other.? Problem is, this
unit has them both on the same end.? And, yes ? I could just turn it around so
that the float is in the front, but that isn?t solving the problem. ?It does
read closer to empty, but not completely. ?This all raises the question:? are
these units being made differently now, or did I get the wrong unit shipped to
me?? See picture attached for an example of what I received. ?Thanks in
advance, ?Al Fulleral at bighealey dot org'65 BJ-8'85 Rx-7
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