Hello from Cave Creek AZ

autoxcuda said

You'd probably have to invest in tooling, fixturing, and/or sub-part manufacturing of the 3/8" to reduce your labor $$ cost. $90 for a good part over a $60 semi-functioning part is palatable. You start going over 3x the lesser fuel senders, customers start looking at other options or just put up with lesser fuel sender.

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You pretty much nailed it. Typically when I am performing miracles it is because some one wants the original "built with" part or at least to have an OEM part number that is correct. Building a reproduction sender is actually a lot less expensive than the labor cost to lovingly disassemble and rebuild a 50 year old part. Incredibly I trade reproduction senders for '64 through '66 Mustangs straight across for a rebuildable core. I have dissected the reproductions and they cut a few corners in order to hit the lowest price. For a great many people that is all they need so I have no issue with that. I manufacture reproduction parts too, but only those that can be built to equal or better than original equipment.