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New owner of a 67 delta 88… zero rust California car. I own a storage yard and one of my tenants failed to pay so i ended up with this car and others via lien sale. I’ve always had my eye on this car… as of right now I’m just getting it running.
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Dropped and flushed tank…
Installed new: 1405 Edelbrock Plugs and wires Fuel sending unit Fuel line and filters Battery
She’s fired but is stalling out.. fuel pump is leaking really bad and has some strange sparking coming from front of water pump pulley.
The Q jet was destroyed and i had the Edelbrock readily available. Funny, i joined this forum so i could message you about wheels.... how ironic i just emailed you, and you replied to my thread.
I always thought that it worked fine with an asterisk (*). Obviously it was much better than nothing if you wanted to know how much gas was in the tank. But the Delta 88 fuel tank does not have baffles, so the fuel sloshes around when the car goes around corners, up and down hills, and over bumps. The sending unit compensated for this by putting the float inside a tin-can arrangement where the can had small holes in the sides. This caused the level of the float to change only slowly and thus smooth out any momentary fluctuations in the fuel gauge reading.
The later sending unit is not like this, and the float is fully exposed. Thus, the gauge readings are not smoothed, and there always was a tendency for the gauge to wave at you as you drove the car around corners and so forth. But, as I say, this was a very minor concern in exchange for having an actual functioning fuel gauge.
I had trouble installing a new fuel sending unit in my 71 98 because the FSU kept shorting to the underside of the body of the car. It works fine now.
