CONCLUSION:
Ladies and gentlemen, (let's be honest, there are no women here.) Gentlemen, it seems that I now have a working fuel gauge. Lol. That was an ordeal. It seems that the metal was grounding itself, and so when I fixed that, it reads good now. $15, or a quarter tank. What have we learned? I have learned that I shall never attempt to rebuild anything ever again, and that I will only replace the entire part, lol. No but, something along those lines. I also learned that there were at least TWO OTHER FUEL INJECTED FESTIVAS in other junkyards in my town, I just didn't know how to look them up and find them. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT, that typing in FORD FESTIVA + the name of your town + JUNKYARD would yield results - I mean WHO. Lol. I just looked at Pick N Pull, because I love them so much and are generally cheaper than junkyards. Man my mind is limited. Gotta think outside the box.
Anyway, I can read my gas gauge now! That was worth the 20 hours it took. I thank you all. Learn from my mistakes. Just buy an entire fuel sender, or use the coil from an older carbureted sender, or use an Aspire sender, which will be somewhat inaccurate but still pretty good. Or, carry a gas can in the back! In conclusion, time is more valuable than money, and I would have rather spent more money getting a sender shipped in than to have gone through this hell to have possibly saved some money. $1 fuel sender fix does sound awesome though. But time is money. Also maybe I should devote myself to something else. I have wasted my life. -
In other news, after I replaced my clutch on this thing, the coolant pipe right under the distributor sprang a leak. I was hoping it was just the heater hose, but lo, it was the metal. Pinhole leak. Pressure test used by the loan a tool program from Autozone confirmed it. I tried JB marine weld. Claims to hold 3940 psi. Still leaked. Maybe I missed the hole. Tried the JB again. It's been 24 hours but it's freezing, so I want to be patient and wait another day until I pressure test again. The newer JB weld I can still put my finger nail into and make a dent, but the JB weld from two days ago is rock hard. Lol, here comes another nightmare. Because I've been debating whether to put some stop leak pellets into the radiator, risking catastrophic blockage and failure, or buy the entire dang coolant pipe, which is so long and complicated and goes under the exhaust manifold and etc. etc. etc. nightmare city. I will probably replace the entire pipe if this next pressure test fails. The heater core is already plugged and it's the dirtiest, rustiest radiator I've ever seen. Oh you poor thing. Who did this to you?
Ladies and gentlemen, (let's be honest, there are no women here.) Gentlemen, it seems that I now have a working fuel gauge. Lol. That was an ordeal. It seems that the metal was grounding itself, and so when I fixed that, it reads good now. $15, or a quarter tank. What have we learned? I have learned that I shall never attempt to rebuild anything ever again, and that I will only replace the entire part, lol. No but, something along those lines. I also learned that there were at least TWO OTHER FUEL INJECTED FESTIVAS in other junkyards in my town, I just didn't know how to look them up and find them. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT, that typing in FORD FESTIVA + the name of your town + JUNKYARD would yield results - I mean WHO. Lol. I just looked at Pick N Pull, because I love them so much and are generally cheaper than junkyards. Man my mind is limited. Gotta think outside the box.
Anyway, I can read my gas gauge now! That was worth the 20 hours it took. I thank you all. Learn from my mistakes. Just buy an entire fuel sender, or use the coil from an older carbureted sender, or use an Aspire sender, which will be somewhat inaccurate but still pretty good. Or, carry a gas can in the back! In conclusion, time is more valuable than money, and I would have rather spent more money getting a sender shipped in than to have gone through this hell to have possibly saved some money. $1 fuel sender fix does sound awesome though. But time is money. Also maybe I should devote myself to something else. I have wasted my life. -
In other news, after I replaced my clutch on this thing, the coolant pipe right under the distributor sprang a leak. I was hoping it was just the heater hose, but lo, it was the metal. Pinhole leak. Pressure test used by the loan a tool program from Autozone confirmed it. I tried JB marine weld. Claims to hold 3940 psi. Still leaked. Maybe I missed the hole. Tried the JB again. It's been 24 hours but it's freezing, so I want to be patient and wait another day until I pressure test again. The newer JB weld I can still put my finger nail into and make a dent, but the JB weld from two days ago is rock hard. Lol, here comes another nightmare. Because I've been debating whether to put some stop leak pellets into the radiator, risking catastrophic blockage and failure, or buy the entire dang coolant pipe, which is so long and complicated and goes under the exhaust manifold and etc. etc. etc. nightmare city. I will probably replace the entire pipe if this next pressure test fails. The heater core is already plugged and it's the dirtiest, rustiest radiator I've ever seen. Oh you poor thing. Who did this to you?
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