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jlaird

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You know I think the tape has come off the fuel sinder unit wire where I soddered it to another wire to make it longer so it would reach the loom. Gauge works fine as long as I wiggle the wire when it is not working, then a bump or so and the same prob.

Pull the fuel tank?

Noooooo, think I will slit a length of plastic hose and slide it on and all the way to the sender unit, that should insilate the darn thing and just may save droping the tank.

How's that for a concept?
 
Hey,whatever works.
 
Drop the tank, Jack. Now is not the time to 'DPO' your bugeye. And your neighbor would get mad when he found his garden hose cut......Hehehe
 
Jack,

It sounds like a plan, just keep my garden hose out of it.

Pat
 
DPO, but I can't be a DPO till I sell it.
 
Use some of that "shrink" insulation. It goes on like a tube but then with some heat it shrinks in place. Since you are working around the tank it may be just as well to slide it over and "zip-tie" it in place until the tank comes out next time and then shrink it.
Bill
 
Good thought, where do I get that?
 
Radio Shack or any electric/electronics place, probably a hardware store would have it.
Bill
 
Okay, sports fans. How do you slide a piece of shrink tube over a wire without cutting the wire?
Jack, your solution is excellent. Get a piece of 1/8" or 3/16" vacuum hose, slit it with an X-Acto knife or razor blade and slide it down the wire. I've used this method before in various applications, and it works fine as a fix until you can get to everything to do it properly.
Once you get it in place, use a small tie wrap to hold it around the wire.
Make a note of it as a temporary, "Field Expedient" fix, and no one can accuse you of being a DPO, as you have the proper documentation. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Jeff
 
jlaird said:
Good thought, where do I get that?
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Our favorite place Jack, the local Advanced Discount Auto Parts!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Jeff, that was exactly what I had in mind. A field expedient repair. Not only that but it would/should prove my premise that the wire is grounding the system as it wigles around.
 
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