My Series I (with the holes in the tank) had its float badly rusted out.
It could not be repaired. I went down to the local autoparts dealer and
looked through their book of tank floats and found a brass one that
approximated the volume of the Alpine original. Removed the old float from
the rod, soldered the new one on and all was well, even seemed to give a
fairly accurate indication of how much fuel was left in the tank!
I used standard lead tin solder. Jarrid, is there a reason to use silver
solder in this application?
At 09:01 AM 2/16/98 -0800, Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) wrote:
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>From: EJMW(at)aol.com
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>>Whilre dealing with my gas tank woes I have found that my sensor has
>some
>>fluid in the float.
>>
>>Does this mean it has a leak as well or did they put some fluid in the
>float
>>for proper weighting?
>>
>>Any info appreciated.
>
>There should be no fluid inside the float.
>
>Easy to fix though.
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>1) drill a very small hole into the float (I mean really small).
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>2) Drain the fuel out through the hole.
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>3) Clean the outside of the float with a good solvent.
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>4) Use a torch and silver solder (use flux too) to re solder the float.
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>5) Use the silver solder to patch the small hole you drilled.
>
>Make sure all the joints are shiny and very clean, or else you'll
>be back to square one in no time.
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>Jarrid Gross
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