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DelPercio

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Am not confident with my fuel gauge. Would like to make a stick with inches. Would I hit the float sticking it, do you put anything on the stick to see the fuel level and how many gallons per inch
 
Use a dowel etc for stick won't hurt float. I used some flat stock aluminum etched in amounts
 
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It helps to know what year of tank. The 28-29 tanks will measure differently than those of 30-31 model years. Somewhere in the Fordbarn archives is an entry describing a measuring stick made of wood dowel and the corresponding inch levels per gallon of fuel specific to the 30-31 Ford tanks.
 
Question on why everyone makes it complicated. Not being argumentative either. I filled my tank and used a wood dowel used to support small plants I stole from mama. Marked full.. then half..then quarter tank. Just using my eyes to divide the areas on the dowel. It's only 3/16s in diameter and lays in my rumble seat rain gutter just fine. And as my working gas gauge moves (gas being used) I've verified it with dowel. Fairly accurate.
 
I trust my gauge all the way down to the bottom of the tank. When I install a gauge, I set the float wire to read ) when the float is on the bottom of the tank. Once the gauge reads ), I know I am close to walking. By yanking the steering wheel one way or the other and watching the gauge as whet fuel is left surges from one side to the other, I get a "fine tuned" reading. When I can't get any movement in the gauge, I have only a couple of miles left at most.
Why are you not confident with it?
 
I replaced my fuel gauge with a re-pop one and it seems to be fairly accurate. If the tank is a true 10gal, which I’ve read it is I think it’s on point. Rebuild kits are only a few $$ though if you want to keep the one you have.
 
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