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Is this sender wire broken??

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middie

middie

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After my "Manifold Mania" problem being resolved I took a couple of free hours and dropped my gas/fuel tank to give it a coat of anti rust.

Bit of a problem with the sender wire . . . I found the end of it OK, but it wasn't attached to anything. Is this broken, or is there some sort of connection hidden somewhere under the car?

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Wazza

BrokenSenderWire.jpg

<span style="font-size: 9pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Plastic sheath pulled back to expose wire</span></span>

FuelTank.jpg
 
In the middle of the same project myself, My wiring has been butchered up (by me)so it is non factory.

Your wire is broke. I am not sure where it attaches to wiring harness with a bullit connector, It will not be under the car. If it does have a bullit connection I imagine it would be inside the trunk on passenger side behind the fender brace where it drops through the trunk floor. I belive the wire is single solid wire from the fuel gauge. No breaks.

I don't remmeber a connection there. If I remember right the wire is black (2nd choice brown) and can be picked up in the area discribed (trunk)
 
Clean the wire and look carefully at its color. I can see it is green... is there a black trace on it?

In your photo, one sending unit spade lug has the black ground wire on it. The other lug (the one on the plastic insulator) has no wire on it. The insulated spade lug is the connection spot for the green/black wire. The other end of the green/black wire connects directly to the fuel gauge.

Unless you have another green/black wire in the vicinity, the disconnected wire in your photo is probably the one that should go on the sending unit terminal with a female spade lug. Clean the wire real well with ammonia to remove oxides, then crimp or solder a new spade lug on it and connect it to the insulated sending unit lug.
 
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