Replacing fuel sender in gas tank

To replace the sender you must remove the fuel tank or you will not be able to navigate out the float and the arm. The new manufacture senders are different and adjustable in height so you will want to take reference measurements to make sure the float starts at the correct height. Both tanks are removable with the engine in place and it is a good time to replace every hose related in the system for safety.

 

I believe it may be possible to change if the air cleaner is removed.
Lift stright away up vertical then turn at pivot to pull floated end out

Please take care with the index of the sender when you remove it - your photos are great for this as the tank is small and the float is the pivot that ONLY can install ONE way.
One rotation off and your sender float will hit the wall half way down and indicator stopped at half full.

 

Check your hoses as Nuvolari recommends. E10 fuel is aggressive to rubber based products beware cheap hoses as well and misleading claims of E50 compliant hoses, most of fakes from China. Ask me how i know.

Apologies for poor photo quality but these were on my car for only 3 months!!

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Wow Tony that is both extraordinary and alarming all at once

 

Not sure if the situation has got worse or better Rob, these hoses where purchased a few years ago and I believe a lot of old stock braided fuel hose was sold a compliant to modern fuels when in actual fact it wasnt plus a lot of copy cat fakes on the market as well. Beware rebranded hoses, I was even supplied fake Codan hoses.

Thankfully the hoses on my car have lasted much longer now. Not sure if braided hoses are now avaialble but i chose hoses without the braid cover

 

A possible non-braided solution?
https://www.gates.com/us/en/fluid-power/engine-hose/fuel-line-hose.p.4219-000000-000002.html

 

Perfect replacement, these are SAE30R14 low pressure hoses, might be easier to get SAE 30R9 hp hoses. Only difference is R9 hoses is for fuel injected cars which is fine for carb cars but not the other way around.
Make sure the inner liner is NBR FKM (Viton)