Today's Plan

Today I hope to take photographs of everything and write up my inventory list. If possible, I would also like to install the fuel sending unit and gas tank. This is what the fuel sending unit looks like:



Inside the tube is a square-ish plastic capsule thing, about 1" in most dimensions that floats, attached to two long wires that extend down the length of the tube. The tube sticks into a hole the gas tank and the flat part screws onto the top of the gas tank. That red ring is a gasket that goes between the flat part and the gas tank to make a watertight seal. Then that little copper tab on the flat part connects to a wire that sends information to the fuel guage.When the tube is submerged in fuel, the floating thing floats at whatever the surface of the fuel is within the gube. I assume that the floating thing makes contact with each of the two long wires, and the flat part sends some kind of electrical signal down one wire, through the float and into the second wire, then somehow the speed that the contact is made between the wires indicates how high or low the float is along the wires, which tells the thing how high or low the fuel level is, which then gets sent to the fuel guage.