Pulled the sender, cleaned it up. There wasn't much to clean, just a thin black film. Pushing the float by hand the gauge moved along with it, but not terribly accurately. Float at the top of the sender put the needle between 3/4ths and full. Float about a quarter of the way up from the bottom the needle was at the R hash mark. Float at bottom turned on the reserve light and the needle was pretty far below the R (The Seinfeld episode where Kramer is seeing how far he can go below E on a test drive came to mind) Not perfect, but now that I know the quirk I can manage it. I still find it strange though that when i jump the ground pin and the needle pin on the plug it only brings the needle to the 1/2 mark on the gauge, did it again today. oh well. On to the lumpy cold idle.....


Thanks for the help.


Adam

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