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Thanks! I called the radiator shop and indeed confirmed that they used Red-Kote. Time to buy me some acetone.

Thanks, but no. The gauge was reading half tank when the sender arm was frozen. After freeing the arm, the gauge reads zero no matter the position of the arm. It would stand to reason that the gauge is OK but the sender is an open circuit no matter the position of the arm. I can double check tonight, but my bet is that the ohmmeter won't read anything no matter how the sender arm is positioned.

When it first came back, it was completely clogged. They unclogged it by blowing compressed air into it. Apparently it was enough to get it idling but not enough to accelerate. At this point I'm done with these guys. I don't like dealing with them and I think it's time to cut my losses with them. Translucent red. What's the procedure? Drain the gas, dump in 1qt of acetone, slosh for 5 minutes, drain the acetone and refill with gas? Not sure the ohm range or how to determine. Tank is steel. Sender is 6-bolt and 3 terminals (only 2 are connected). Gauge is Smiths. I think the chassis might be 1977. I'll check out Moss.

I recently had my carb rebuilt and as a condition of the warranty the carb shop required that the gas tank be boiled out. I took it to a radiator shop that they ahd recommended to have it done. When the radiator shop finished boiling it out, they recommended the tank be coated so I gave them the "OK". Big mistake. When I got everything back in the car I started having fuel starvation issues. If I take out the fuel sender and run a hose from the fuel pump down the hole, everything runs great. If I use the regular outlet tube, it stalls when I put the hammer down. I've measured the fuel output of the electric fuel pump and it puts out a healthy stream on my jury-rigged hose but a mere trickle on the regular outlet tube, so clearly it's a blockage in the tube. I've run twisted cable through the tube and it seems pretty free in there so the blockage must be at the pickup area. This is an early Caterham Super Seven S3 with Smiths gauges. I put in a call to Dave Bean but they said they only deal mainly with Series2 cars. I also called CaterhamUSA but the guy said he only had a listing for a 55L tank (I'm pretty sure mine's in the 7-10 gallon range). Is this tank repairable? If not, where can I get a replacement? On a side note, the sender arm froze in position and the tank would read halfway on the fuel gauge no matter what. I manage to wiggle the arm loose but now the gauge reads zero no matter what. Anyone got a good source on the sender? Thanks.