As an Australian, I ask ?why do you use ethanol in these vehicles??, or don?t
you have a say as to what you use in your countries.
John Rowe
Qld Australia
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael
MacLean
Sent: Wednesday, 30 May 2018 5:55 AM
To: tld6008 at mchsi.com
Cc: Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Effects of Ethanol
Don't do it. It will fill with gas in about two years and you will be doing
this again. All you have to do is buy a brass float and swap it out for the
plastic one and sleep well at night. It just snaps right in. The brass float is
a Ford part no. COAZ-9202-B. You can find them on eBay, Amazon, Summit Racing
and even the Ford dealer. Ethanol does not eat brass.
Mike M.
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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Tim Davis BN7
<tld6008 at mchsi.com> wrote:
I had the powdery residue all over mine. I just bought a new one from Moss it
has a plastic float. Hopefully it will hold up.
Tim Davis BN7
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From: Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
To: Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tue, 29 May 2018 11:29:39 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Healeys] Effects of Ethanol
This past weekend I removed the tank to extract the sending unit on my Bugeye
because of a constant reading of empty on the gauge. As suspected, the plastic
float was filled with gasoline. Ethanol! While replacing the plastic float
for brass and the cork gaskets for Viton type gaskets, I also swapped out the
sending unit top cover cork gasket with a Viton type using Hylomar AF to seal
things up. The big surprise came when I found the rheostat cavity full of
gasoline. Must have entered through the hole in the sending unit body for the
float lever. Anyone have experience with this? Should I be concerned? I
remember the original sending unit I removed form the Bugeye tank was full of a
white powdery residue around the rheostat like it had also been filled with
gasoline. Anyone have experience with this?
Mike MacLean
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