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

[cotejohnr@xxxxxxx]

My '56 New Yorker has a cork float. Probably the last year.

John Cote


-----Original Message-----
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

























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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