CJ5 fuel gage sending unit.
ChuckD
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- 1959 Willys CJ5. Mostly original with 134 F-head, T90, Dana 18 T-case. 44 rear and 27 Front.
I have a 59 CJ5 and replaced the speed-o that has the fuel gage on it. The fuel sending unit looked in great shape so I kept it and it seemed to work great. However, now that I’m driving the CJ, I see that the gage stays on full forever and then drops to half and then empty very. I was thinking I needed to slightly bend the float arm up so the arm will drop sooner as the fuel level drops. Problem is if I’m going to do all that and the real problem is a bad sending unit, I’m just doing twice the work. Has anyone else seen this problem? Do you think my sending unit is going bad? Do you think bending the arm up will help the problem?