Brief Description: Sealed fuel end plate rivets & nutplates with Pros
We had a layoff because I had to go to dentist yesterday. For a couple of days, we bent sender float wires so as to get full swing and checked them with Ohm meter. We then checked the pickup tubes etc. Today we anchored the pickup tube to the end plate with the newly designed antirotation bracket but the pickup tubes didn't drop to the bottom of the tank without bending them. We worried about the bending but didn't have any trouble. We then, for the first time, mixed up some Proseal; what a mess!!! We cleaned the parts with MEK, covered the rivets with proseal and squeezed the rivets holding the nut plates on and drove the rivets holding the antirotation bracket on. We then covered the inside of the nut plates and rivets with Proseal. Image 2 shows the pickup tube in place and positioned so that it would just touch the bottom of the tank. It also shows the antirotation bracket held in place with #4 rivets and shows the nut plates riveted in place and the inner side of the nut plates covered with Proseal. Next time we will insert the senders and anchor them to the end plate using these nut plates & will seal the whole thing up with more Proseal and gaskets. Hopefully, after all that there will be no leak and the pickup will be on the bottom of the tank so that there will be a very small amount of unuseable fuel in the tanks and there will be full travel of the floats so the fuel guages will be approximately correct. I understand that there will be a 6 gallon burn before the float "floats". Now I know why an auto fuel guage seems to indicate that you can run "forever" on FULL but, boy, after that the needle really falls. I think that that is how the RV guages work also.
