by 73SILVERGT » Tue Feb 16, 2021 5:32 am
Chris - Great point, I believe that this will be an easy solution (bending the float arm up just a bit).
Art - What Chris is saying is that because I altered the distance between where the float bottoms out and the bottom of the pick up, I have altered what the float now considers "empty." There is a built-in "reserve" meaning that empty is not really empty in most vehicles, typically there is about 1-1.5 gallons left in the tank when you hit E. This is why if you press your luck, you can actually drive beyond E. So the float does not need to be lower to fix this, it needs to be higher to "set the reserve." It needs to come up about 1/2." At the moment the float sits about 1/2" off the bottom of the tank, it should be about 1". As Chris recommends, a quick bend upward of the float arm will fix this.
If I had to do this again, I would try cutting and splicing just the area ABOVE the float vs. both places. It would require cutting the pick up tube brace off the tube, but I did end up doing this anyway. This would result in only having 1 splice vs. 2 and the float to pickup filter distance would not be altered (but you still need to ensure that your filter close to the bottom of the tank).
I hope this helps?
Phil