The other day, I had placed the old, holed float on one of the tables outside on the patio, to allow it to dry off outdoors. Today, I walked past the table, and to my surprise, smelled petrol. On inspection, I saw that the float was still leaking petrol. I think it was originally absolutely full of fuel. I ordered the sender, with float, so I will have a viable float in a day or so.
Which explains why it was completely silent when you tried shaking it
Indeed.
In a final (?) kicker, Yodel said on Sunday that they would deliver the sender yesterday. It did not arrive. I went onto e-bay this morning, and entered one of those never-ending roundabouts, where the help page tells you to do one thing to lodge a complaint about delivery, which takes you back to the item information page, and round and round forever. I finally got on to Yodel, who said that it had been delayed in transit, and would now be delivered on Thursday. It had better be before I go out for my weekly pub evening....
I have finally got my local Evri bloke trained to leave parcels in my green waste bin - but not on bin day :-\
Around here, Hermes/Evri have always been excellent. Our driver of many years, Eddie, has now retired to the Depot, and his successor seems to be following in his footsteps. As for Yodel, the less said, the better.
I purchased the new sender, and took the wire and float from it. I installed this on the old sender unit, as it has the correct resistance range, and testing outside the tank showed that it responded correctly to varying float heights. But when I inserted it into the tank, the float appeared to behave oddly as it was lowered into the tank, and gave a reading, with an almost full tank, of <50% full. From which I concluded that the theory of settling out of the different components of the fuel in the tank was correct, and it is this that is upsetting the float's behaviour. Luckily, I have a SORNed vehicle, of which I run the engine every couple of weeks to keep it alive, and the tank was running low. So I transferred the fuel from the old car to this vehicle, until the pump was working against an empty tank. It will be interesting to monitor how the old fuel behaves when I next run the SORNed vehicle's engine. The next job this weekend will be to remove the sender unit, again check it for correct operation, and lower it slowly back into the empty tank to see if there is anything happening to the float that shouldn't be. Then I will keep adding fresh E5 fuel, one 5-litre can at a time, purchased whenever I am passing the petrol station. I will watch and record the reading of the gauge after each top-up. Wish me luck.
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