4SPEED427 wrote:

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Spent the whole day in my favourite wrecking yard in Minnesota. Sorry, no pictures but wow, I'm amazed every time I go there. I don't know of a yard with more 50's and 60's cars. 40 acre yard that is coming up on 70 years old in about one more year.

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 same stuff in the yard or is he always adding to the inventory?

After procrastinating for too long, I finally changed the fuel sender in the 69 today. Just to make it interesting, I did it with 1/2 a tank of fuel. Made a little platform that drops into the floor jack and fits between the straps. Worked great.

Always be sure to cap the vent and sender outlets before moving a tank 1/2 full. I leaned this on the 67 tank. Removing the old sender and looking inside, the tank appears in good condition. Most would replace it at this point, but it's fine.

Last fall I tried improving the ground in the hope that was it, but no change. Trouble shooting back then, I jumpered the new sender to the 20 Tan wire connection at the trunk latch, added a ground and sure enough the gauge worked and moved with the float.

Looks like the old one is original to the car. Can it be repaired? Maybe, but the inlet tube is pretty crusty. Maybe I'll give it a shot. I now in no way expect the new one to last very long, it really looks like a piece of crap I'm sorry to say. Quality is non existant today in the replacement senders, but for now we at least have a measure.

Yes, I'd be inclined to use a good original Randy.

Have you ever had one of these canister type senders apart? Can they even be opened?

what is the GM  part # ? maybe an NOS one out there

 From MPC

Fuel Exhaust

3.107 Gauge or meter. fuel tank unit

 6428084    1969/ALL -EXC WAGONS - WITH F.I.C.C. T/W 327 ENGINE

                   1969/ALL  WITH 327 - 350 AND 396 ENGINES - EXC WAGONS - EXC F.I.C.C.

In all there appears to be 7 variations of the sender for 69

hawkeye5766 wrote:

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Starting to see the land through the fog...... Getting close to being up and running!! Boat is now wearing a skirt... 

 

  

 

  

 

 

-- Edited by hawkeye5766 on Thursday 25th of April 2024 12:07:46 AM

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 You're enjoying retirement too much!

Old lawnmower:

I bought an Amazon coil for my old Tecumseh gas lawnmower. It worked. First pull. What a joy the gas machine.

Oh, and it came with what I assume is a counterfeit plug. Hilarious! Nope.

cdnpont wrote:

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Some scrap square, flat and some old Explorer rotors makes a rough stand for the disc brake assemblies. I like to have them on a stand.

And discovered I can't mig weld onto cast steel (at least not with my wire). Hence the bolt on flat at the bottom.

Now we have to make them look nice like Randy's.

 

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 Boy that looks a lot better than having it wobbling around on the bench while you work on it.

Is your bottom "ball joint" just a piece of flat steel with a bolt sticking up? I can't quite tell.

Yes, the "Ball joints" are just flat steel with a throughbolt.

I ordered this master kit. It has the 12 V cover and the axle plate bolts, but it does not have the ring gear bolts.

it makes putting it together a lot easier having all the packages marked. i get the body, interior and engine kits too