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V8guy · 08-20-2025, 10:03 PM

What do the little cups on the sender do the lower one is pretty much gone see photos. Suggestions for repair?

Mike

petehoovie · 08-20-2025, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by V8guy

What do the little cups on the sender do the lower one is pretty much gone see photos. Suggestions for repair?

Mike

Terry,OH · 08-21-2025, 05:53 AM

Too much damage get another sender. The cups create the pressure necessary to move the column of red fluid in the dash gauge. Have you been using an extend fuel additive? Just wondering.

V8guy · 08-21-2025, 07:41 PM

The car sat idle for a number of years when I purchased it, that was the condition of the sender when I removed it to clean the tank, At one time I had the gauge working it would only read 3/4 when full but empty was empty and I could live with that. In the last 2 years or so it started pushing the red fluid out of the dash unit so I removed the sender again and that is where I am at right now.

Terry,OH · 08-22-2025, 08:28 AM

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Determine where the red fluid is going. If out of the top of the gauge the gas tank vent is blocked if back into the line feeding pressure to the gauge then your gauge may be missing a rod which calibrates how much fluid is in the red fluid tank.

08-21-2025, 05:53 AM	#3
Terry,OH Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 5,394	Re: 1935 Fuel gauge sender repair Too much damage get another sender. The cups create the pressure necessary to move the column of red fluid in the dash gauge. Have you been using an extend fuel additive? Just wondering.

08-21-2025, 07:41 PM	#4
V8guy Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Milwaukee Wi Posts: 98	Re: 1935 Fuel gauge sender repair The car sat idle for a number of years when I purchased it, that was the condition of the sender when I removed it to clean the tank, At one time I had the gauge working it would only read 3/4 when full but empty was empty and I could live with that. In the last 2 years or so it started pushing the red fluid out of the dash unit so I removed the sender again and that is where I am at right now.

08-22-2025, 08:28 AM	#5
Terry,OH Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 5,394	Re: 1935 Fuel gauge sender repair Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Determine where the red fluid is going. If out of the top of the gauge the gas tank vent is blocked if back into the line feeding pressure to the gauge then your gauge may be missing a rod which calibrates how much fluid is in the red fluid tank.