As in... y'all are being very quiet. Hopefully we're all busy doing positive stuff; my wife has joined a group of local ladies sewing masks for the Hartford, Conn. area hospital community. She's using the sweet little black/gold Singer sewing machine left by her grandmother; the serial number says it's a '52. Cool, huh?
Speaking of cats, this is Al, the guv'nor at a friend's barn. He's a ruthless killer of critters but will melt in your lap, purring like a small Perkins 2-stroke diesel, at least until be becomes bored and saunters off, twitching his tail. He's the antithesis of the many big fat indoors-only cats (who seem to often belong to equally proportioned people!).
Not the world's most exciting post today; I'm doing this car the way I did my SC, looking at the bagged & tagged components I'd removed and reconditioning as possible.
The fuel sender showed rust staining on the aluminum outer case, so I took it apart for a shufty. BTW, do any of us on this forum know "edredas" on YouTube? He's almost in a similar league (my opinion) as Clark, in terms of posting useful information to 944/924S owners. I mention him because I was looking for how to take this thing apart and he showed the neat trick of slotting a flat-head screwdriver.
Since I bought this car as a basket case, I had no idea whether the fuel sender was any good, but based on the condition of the tank I figured it was likely junk. Once apart, I could see a fair amount of rusty/sandy gunge, plus the wire for the low warning light was snapped at the lower mount.
I therefore cleaned the assembly up as best possible, trying my best not to snap the other (ultra thin filament) wire, which wraps around the lower mount to create the resistance circuit (someone please correct me if I'm using the wrong terminology here). I cleaned the contacts, then resoldered the snapped wire. Hopefully it holds.
I did my usual cleaning things up, then put it back together. Being my anal-retentive self, using my wire wheel I cleaned-up the five small cap screws which hold the sender to the tank and, not having new copper washers, I annealed the originals. I only grabbed before photos, no after's.
With a new sender gasket from URO, I installed the unit back into my reconditioned tank.
That's it for today...it's cold out there.
John