Fuel sender mount

Details Fuel sender mount Fuel sender mount

1986-05-16

1988-12-13

Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.

Measuring and testing

Liquid level or depth gauge

Float

73305, 73290R, 137565, 280 5A, 417361, G01F 2300, G01F 2332

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047901853

ABSTRACT:
A fuel sender mount comprises a support rod, a mounting plate secured at one end of the support rod and bolted to the top wall of the fuel tank, a carriage slideably mounted to the support rod and secured to the fuel sender housing and a spring for resiliently urging the carriage downwardly away from the top wall of the tank. The lower end of the carriage is received in a guide socket so that the fuel sender remains fixedly positioned with respect to the fuel tank. The mount is particularly useful in a fuel tank having a resiliently deformable bottom which can be deformed upwardly upon contact with a foreign object. During such contact, the carriage slides along the support rod to prevent puncturing of the bottom wall of the tank, and the force of the contact is not directed against the support rod or the mounting plate with sufficient force to cause the mounting bolts to rip through the top wall of the fuel tank or otherwise rupture the fuel tank. When the bottom returns to its normal shape, the fuel sender is returned to its relatively fixed position within the fuel tank at which the fuel sender fluid inlet communicates with the bottom of the fuel tank and at which a fuel level detector within the fuel sender housing provides an accurate indication of the fluid level in the tank.

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