Gas Tank Questions

I’ve used the Spectra sending units, I’m not paying $300 for a rebuild. Plus I use 3/8” pickups so that would be extra.

The part that isn’t accurate is the first half a tank because of the spare tire well, the gauge goes down pretty quick to around the 1/2 mark and then slows down.

And really I don’t need my gauge to fractionally represent the number of gallons in my tank perfectly. As long as it’s consistent it doesn’t matter, I drive my car enough to know what’s what. I mean, it’s a 16 gallon tank so half should be 8, 1/4 should be 4 right? Well, if “half” is 10 and “quarter” is 5 it doesn’t matter as long as I know that. And since I put gas in the thing every week I know that. If half was 7 and quarter was 3 it’s the same deal, as long as you know what’s left the gauge has done it’s job, I don’t need it to be accurate to the ounce I just need it to consistently read the same thing at the same level, which the Spectra’s do just fine.

And you can bend the float arm if you really don’t like it. It doesn’t fix the scaling issue from the inconsistent tank shape but it will change what it reads when, like if you want a couple gallons in the tank when it hits the peg you can accomplish that pretty easily.