John S's Journal

I finally decided to crawl under the car today and drain the tank in preparation for a new sender. One of those jobs that I should have done in the warmer months but just never got around to it. I’ve been playing a bit of a game of chicken in recent weeks by driving the car with an inaccurate gauge. Staying close to home on my drives just in case…
I figure I got about 2 gallons out of the tank so it’s all ready for the new sender and some non-ethanol fuel when I get the chance to go get some.
The new sender seemed like it was all over the map when I measured it with my meter so I had to tweak the stops to get it to read right. I haven’t pulled the other one yet but it wasn’t that old so it will be interesting to see why it wasn’t reading right but that will have to wait for another day as I ran out of time.

I haven’t done much with the car recently as the weather has turned. I don’t anticipate much driving as there is too much else going on this time of the year and dry days are a rarity here during the Winter. Once the tank sender is in and the fresh gas, I’ll take it out on short hops when I can but the car cover will be going on soon to keep the garage dust off of it.