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Fuel Sending Units

Has anyone ever had one rebuilt? Where? I know you can change the buttstuffog gauge sending unit to work in a full digital car and visa versa, but has anyone "rebuilt" one, or made it like new again? The one is my car is iffy, it doesn't come off E until about 7-9 gallons are in the tank, or so and I may need a fuel pump in the near future, so it would be the time to do this.

What have you guys done?

Fuel Sending Units

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Or has anyone ordered one for a buttstuffog/base cluster before? I know the voltages are opposite readouts and all of them list them as the same. Some places even list the fuel pump and sending unit was one, which is totally incorrect. The difference seems to be between  some cars being installed with HANGER pumps and other with Walboro pumps,  one must work for the buttstuffog/ one for the digital, but which is which?

Fuel Sending Units

Reply #2 –
Quote from: jpc647;348574
Some places even list the fuel pump and sending unit was one, which is totally incorrect.
The difference seems to be between  some cars being installed with HANGER pumps and other with Walboro pumps,  one must work for the buttstuffog/ one for the digital, but which is which?

 
Early cars had the pump assembly / fuel sender as one unit , I'm not sure when it changed

 What exactly is a "hanger" pump you are referring to ? I'm unfamiliar with the term
Fox-less at the moment

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Reply #3 –
Quote from: hypostang;348580
Early cars had the pump assembly / fuel sender as one unit , I'm not sure when it changed

 What exactly is a "hanger" pump you are referring to ? I'm unfamiliar with the term

Hanger pumps is a brand, as is walboro. Have you personally used the two in one combination? What did you do with the second hold in the fuel tank? According to the parts stores, and even rock auto, the difference between the sneding units is the two brands, so which brand did ford use for the full digital cluster, and which one did they use for the buttstuffog cluster? I don't know what to do...

Fuel Sending Units

Reply #4 –
Quote from: jpc647;348647
Hanger pumps is a brand, as is walboro. Have you personally used the two in one combination? What did you do with the second hold in the fuel tank?

My 84 had the all in one and those cars had only one hole in the tank .

  And I'll look into the "hanger" brand
Fox-less at the moment

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I spent off and on over the past couple days , about 4 hours hunting down the very thread i knew  well was in here somewhere.  To beat all, you started it!

its now at the top in my diy link so it doesnt get lost or burried.

here it is, all we know about the two senders.
did you ever get anywhere, the thread was open until you got time to drop the tank.

Fuel sending unit (buttstuffog and digital cluster)
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?22137-fuel-sending-unit

Fuel Sending Units

Reply #6 –
Quote from: jcassity;348936
I spent off and on over the past couple days , about 4 hours hunting down the very thread i knew  well was in here somewhere.  To beat all, you started it!

its now at the top in my diy link so it doesnt get lost or burried.

here it is, all we know about the two senders.
did you ever get anywhere, the thread was open until you got time to drop the tank.

Fuel sending unit (buttstuffog and digital cluster)
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?22137-fuel-sending-unit

I tried to find the thread too, but I couldn't. I don't know what the issue is, but whenever I search for something on here, it never comes up. I know I started that thread. I remember you saying I didn't respond to what you asked in post 41. I remember reading post 44, over and over, thinking you were just being a smart ass. I did it tonight, I read it and you said look at post 41 paragraph 2, and i read 44, and got confused.

I do not believe the two, the gas gauge problem and the coolant gauge are a resitance/voltage/a connected problem between the two. I only say this because my temperature problem only occurs during Winter. I drove the car everyday last summer, and the temperature gauge never went and higher than 3/4. During the winter, the car seems to stay steady just before the red  area. But if i Measure the coolant, or the temp on the intake, it does not seem consistent with the gauge.
 

Fuel Sending Units

Reply #7 –
dont feel bad about not knowing how to search,, get my drift when i said i spent 4hours?

The one thing i have noticed about the new board is that there are a ton of more historical threads buried into each catagory.

Wanna know how i found it?
searching for "fuel sending unit" by all threads posted by "jcassity" or "damanic" yielded nothing.
searching for any combination of the above words with &, "", - ect as separators did noththing to help.

Then i noticed somewhere in the searching that i could manage all my attachements.  Im like,, WTF?
so i scrolled down the first page of attachements the system said i posted and noticed the picture attachements were going way way back in time then it clicked.

My clue was this,, IN my home computer i saved the pics Dr D posted and the time stamp on those saved pics was 8dec2008. 

I scrolled through all my attachments here and finally arrived at a thread that looked familiar and so I clicked the thread it was tied to.

Sure enough, as my gut was telling me, This thread you started had nothing to do with electrical tech, misc tech or even the lounge or general section.  I remember this thread and I litterally drill back in time on each sub catagory back to 2008 time frame which yielded no thread i wanted.

so i finally stumbled upon the attachment managment option and found it.
If i had kept on for the next couple days, i would have found this valuable thread in the wanted or for sale area,,, go figure.

and yes,, i totally understand if you thought i was being a smart ass, sometimes I am but in this case on that thread you commented on, I was not.  I was trying to not repeat what was already said as to preserve the information as it was documented.

You wont have any problems looking into the matter once you get time to take some readings like was suggested.  from there your probably going to find its either your float has some fluid in it or the variable resistance wiper arm is simply dirty and needs cleaned with an eraser or whatever.

good luck

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Reply #8 –
An easier way for the thread starter to do it would be to go to click on your username then click "find all started threads" - of course that only applies if you are (or know of) the thread starter
FOXLESS!!

1994 Lincoln Mark VIII

Fuel Sending Units

Reply #9 –
Quote from: 20thanniver-ls;349083
An easier way for the thread starter to do it would be to go to click on your username then click "find all started threads" - of course that only applies if you are (or know of) the thread starter

I tried that, but it only pulled up 4 or 5 threads, and I know I have started many more than that.

jcassity, I'm going to print out what you said, and one day this week if I can get out of work early, I'm going to trouble shoot it a little. The fuel pump may be on it's way out, I changed the fuel filter only to still get the check engine light almost as soon as I left the driveway. It's not ignition related most likely, as all of the ignition components are new. Timing was checked not too long ago. I'm hoping my father/brother have a fuel pressure tester long enough to bring inside the car. We'll see. Maybe it's the regulator on the rail, who knows.