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Have you checked with Mike Dulinski. He's closer and may have a refurbished tank. Repro 57-58 Ford passenger car senders (same as our 51 on's) are available from several places.
Posted on: 2012/11/10 23:27
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Thanks I'll give him a call.
Posted on: 2012/11/11 0:03
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-Carl | [url=https://packardinfo.
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I have a 57 Ford sending unit in my 51 200 and it works fine. Also much less expensive. It's quite easy to install - I put mine in by lowering (and not removing) the tank.
Posted on: 2012/11/11 13:11
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If you know which resistance value of your sender than you can cross reference it to an aftermarket unit. That's what I did with my 47 Packard. But since my unit was a basket case, I hooked up some resistors and calculated that I could use the 0-30 Ohms sender which works with most pre- 1965 GM cars.
Ohms/Resistance (Empty/Full) Popular Models 0-90 Ohms most GM cars, 1965-up 73-10 Ohms pre-1989 Fords & most Chryslers 240-33.5 Ohms Industry standard, works on many popular cars 0-30 Ohms most pre-1965 GM cars 16-158 Ohms most '89-up Fords
Posted on: 2012/11/11 16:15
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The sending unit is fine it's the tank that I'm worried about. Thank you for the information!
Posted on: 2012/11/11 17:33
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All gauge (temp, oil, gas) senders on the 51-56 Packards are King-Seeley resistance type. Those senders use the 73 empty 10 full range as in Fords and Chryslers. 6 or 12v is not an issue as the gauges are regulated to 5v. 1950 and before gets a little confusing and varies by the type gauge. 0-30 may be S-W's range in use then since many models appear to have had S-W gauges. My 47 does and I believe some prewars did as well. It gets a bit more interesting with the cars that have the bimetal type senders. I believe 22-23rd series fall in that group.
Posted on: 2012/11/11 18:10
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you might want to check out gastankrenu.com. I have not used the service, but probably would if I could avoid shipment. I see there is a shop in New Jersey.
Best of Luck
Posted on: 2012/11/11 21:27
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Howard is correct the 48/49/50 use a bimetal sender. Wolf rebuilt mine a couple of years ago
Posted on: 2012/11/12 8:35
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