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| | | | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 157 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 157 | Hi all
Well, due to a serious load of rust and sediment in my gas tank (1951 Chev. 3100 series), I've pulled the tank and will have it professionally cleaned and sealed.
When I pulled the sending unit out, it was covered with rust and crud and the float had a hole in it. My tank uses the shut off valve on the bottom of the tank, and has a 1/4" pipe plug in the bottom - probably a drain, right? The sending unit looks exactly like one pictured in the Bowtie Bits catalog, part # AD-545-GTSU, supposedly for the 1954-1955 models. It had a capped off fitting on the top that lead to a tube running down near the bottom of the tank.
On the same page of the same catalog, they show a sending unit (part #AD-473-GTSU) for the 1947-1953 models that does NOT have this tube, just a float assembly on an arm.
Anyone have a suggestion as to which I should order for a replacement? Am I perhaps missing a return line or something, or is that tube supposed to be a vent line or something? Any help appreciated, I'll be ordering the parts on Monday.
Thanks
fredstev
On the same page of the same catalog | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I am not an expert but I thought the one that you have is for the 54 and up,,, others may correct me,, hey shooper....help us out............Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 399 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 399 | I'm here..Sounds like someone put a 54 sending unit in it, and modified it to work..Just by luck, Joker52 sent me one that won't work on my 54 because mine sucks off the bottom of the tank, and comes out the sending unit at the top..I'd be happy to send you this one if you want to PM me with your address..Steve | | |
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