[jimmy wayne]

this is for everyone with a classic.2 nights ago i went out to my garage to find 15 gallons of gas on my floor, i thought i was gonna have a heart attack, i got under my 66 coupe and noticed gas dripping out at the sending unit, let me remind you these are all new parts from the restore.i took out the sending unit and found the culprit, i got on the phone with NATIONAL PARTS DEPOT and found out they no longer sell the sending units due to defected parts they have been selling , the maneger told me he has about 5-7 people per week in their pissed off stinking of gas, so if you purchesed a sending unit from them with in the last 3 years its only a matter of time befor it leaks,they said that their is nothing they will be doing to help us out,basterds piss me off ,they got these units from CHINA an the make is scotts drake, sorry to give you guys bad news but i am just looking out , what a pain in my ass guys 15 gallons on the floor my garge will never be the same everything soaked jimmy wayne ,change it befor it gets you like me .

[Jay H 237]

I've heard of this before. NPD isn't the only one to pull that sender off the market as many of the other suppliers recieved them too. There were posts on the VMF about them leaking around the pick up tube.

Scott Drake has to fix the problem with these senders, the suppliers really don't have anything to do with it, but SD should take notice when they lose demand for this part.

[Proarms]

I just finished this swap with the Scott Drake part and had problems too. My original sending unit had a hole in the float so it was reading that I had an empty tank all the time. I installed the new "Drake" part then 1 week later had the same "empty tank" result. After that I pulled out the new unit and found that the plastic float on the replacement part had a crack in it and caused the float to fill up. Luckily I kept my old sending unit so I used some gas tank repair putty I got from NAPA and sealed the hole in my original brass float valve and it has worked great for about 3 weeks now.
My advice to anyone that wants to install a new unit would be to install the brass float replacement unit or see if you can just fix the one you have by repairing any leaks.