I am in the process of cleaning out my big old shed in my back yard because it is in bad shape and I am going to tear it down and build a new one.I found a long lenght of 1/4'' clear plastic flexible tubing.I tried out the tubing to see if it will go down the gas tank neck and on down into the tank of my 1978 Dodge van.The tubing does go on down to about 31 inches when I can feel the tubing stop.
I guess if I cut the tubing to about 36'' that would give me a fair idea of how much gas is in the tank if I hold my thumb on the outer end of the tubing or bend/kind that end of the tubing and then quickly withdraw the tubing out of the tank?
The old gas tank is rusty and over the years since I have owned the van since 1989, I repaired numerous little pin holes on the bottom of the with fiberglass epoxy resin and fiberglass cloth.
When I get my back yard fixed up, I am going to see if the van will run ok if I sit a small plastic gas container on the floor of the van and I will hook up a regular flexible gas line to the fuel pump.If it will work ok, I will fix it up more permantly and I will remove the old tank.The longest distance I ever drive anymore is less than 20 miles round trip, I don't need a big gas tank.I own several small plastic gas containers, one of them is translucent, I can see the fuel level in there.
I always keep a small red plastic gas container in my van mostly full for lawn mower gas, if the other little plastic gas container starts running too low, I can pour some gas in there from the other little gas container and that would be enough to get me to a gas station.The fuel gage in that old tank quit working long ago and I don't think it is worth installing a new sending unit inside of the tank.That old tank needs to go! cuhulin