break in continuity when test gas sending unit

wont work. Gasoline will eat the tooth pick and contaminate your fuel.
That contact never was a solid spoon shape with single small contact point. More like fillet of a donut. This lets it contact the wire at 2 to 6 points at all times. It would wear thin and through to a 'C' shape and snag the wires. It couldn't stretch the wire and raise it from the phenolic board either. That board shrinks with age. The change is amplified at wider span of board so longer wires appear more loose.