fuel sending wire

[roctor]

happy new year all. due to a calamity of errors the silver wire on the sending unit was disposed of. the wire in question looks like nichrome. however i believe this would be disastrous. what is the composure and gauge of the wire? thanks roger

[Walt Fricke]

Roger

I assume you are talking of one of the bare wires inside the sender, on which a slider slides?

You may be SOL. Basically no one rebuilds these fuel senders. Those that have tried and written about it have reported, at most, very short term success, and ultimate failure.

Buy a new sender, or a used one that still works.

But maybe some determined soul here has disassembled a sender and measured the resistance (and diameter) of the wire. There are a lot of souls here, some quite determined when so moved. One less than there used to be, alas.

Walt Fricke