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Title: Saddle tank fuel pick ups
Post by: rugbychevyguy on July 27, 2015, 04:20:05 pm

Any suggestions on how to clean, test and repair these to make the useable. I want to get new gaskets and cleaner boot things.
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Title: Re: Saddle tank fuel pick ups
Post by: timthescarrd on July 27, 2015, 04:40:33 pm

I know this doesn't really answer your question but you can buy whole new ones at most parts stores for 50-60 USD. With as ruste as those are, I'm not sure I'd trust them.

Testing them would be to check the Ohms as you move the float from the bottom to top 0 empty 90 full (one lead on that single wire the other to a good ground and don't touch and of the metal while you're testing it.

By boot thingy I assume you mean that long black mesh at the bottom of the pickup tube?  I've heard that called a sock, a sleeve, or a filter.  It basically just prevents large particles from going into the tube.  Those get brittle with age, I'm not sure where you would get new ones.