Re: removed my fuel tank ,1952 pressure guage at the fuel pump
Posted by HH56 On 2013/7/21 11:56:10
I haven't actually ever seen an original Packard fuel sender
The 51-6 Packard senders used the wire rheostat. As DrewLA mentioned, the wire or the wiper contact can get dirty. Like the resistive coating, the wire is also supported on a length of phenolic riveted to the sender body. It's shaped in an arc to match the wiper swing but the phenolic has a nasty habit of distorting. If that happened, it could also be causing an intermittent loss of contact or high resistance at a certain area.
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The 51-6 Packard senders used the wire rheostat. As DrewLA mentioned, the wire or the wiper contact can get dirty. Like the resistive coating, the wire is also supported on a length of phenolic riveted to the sender body. It's shaped in an arc to match the wiper swing but the phenolic has a nasty habit of distorting. If that happened, it could also be causing an intermittent loss of contact or high resistance at a certain area.
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