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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:36 pm 
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:06 pm 
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Was it still working when you pulled it out? Or did you pull it out because it stopped working?

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:24 pm 
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The arm was rusted in place.

I pulled it because I was replacing the tank on a truck that had been sitting for about a decade.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:58 pm 
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I had one that was similar. It had more of a chalky white substance all over it though and it still moved. I had to clean the pivot point of the arm to get it to electrically connect. A soak in CLR did most of the cleaning with a little bit of picking with a pointy dental/soldering pick to get stuff out of the cracks.

Prior to that I didn't know that the pivot point was actually part of the electrical circuit.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:14 am 
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What I'd give for chalky white stuff! The whole inside of the old tank looks like the sender. Rusty and chunky!


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:27 am 
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Mine in the 79' looked just as bad . Took the tank to be cleaned out and did CLR trick on the sender . just kept working on gently cleaning it . Works like new .


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:52 pm 
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For cleaning the tank on mine I took it to the do it yourself car wash late one night. It didn't have much for rust on the top inside though, just thick and hard crud on the bottom. A hot pressure washer stuffed down the sender unit hole cleared out most everything.

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